Re: Installation tests with GRUB on GPT disks

[Frank Scheiner <frank.scheiner@web.de>]

On 05/19/2018 09:49 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > In the meantime I found a way to extract the initrd from the TILO image. But trying an installation with it and the CDROM kernel (which I assume is identical to
> > the kernel inside of the TILO image) showed some issues (missing Debian ports keys, defaults to buster, debootstrap fails to install initramfs-tools, etc.) that
> > prevented a successful installation.
>
> Please search the debian-sparc mailing list regarding the netboot topic,
> we have discussed netboot in the past. Maybe this discussion can shed
> some light onto your questions:
>
> > https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2017/04/msg00002.html

Thanks for this hint, I believe I read this already in the past, but 
then forgot about it and hence - maybe again - wrongly assumed that the 
installer image is a TILO image where it is not.