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Re: Bug#927892: grub-ieee1275-bin: Please add bootinfo.txt for sparc and sparc64



On 4/27/19 11:12 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> The ISO is now added to my collection of bootable ISOs for regression
> test. My test loop checks whether the ISOs which are repacked from
> existing ISOs still show the same boot equipment and file tree content.
> (Happens when i change boot related program parts and before releases.
>  2 hours of 3.5 GHz Xeon shoveling forth and back on about 150 GB.)

Please note: The ISO on my people.debian.org website is just a test
build. The final images will show up on cdimage.debian.org/cdimage.

> May i assume that the old debian-10.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso is in
> retirement for now ?
> (Please announce on debian-sparc if the genisoimage style gets revived.)

Yes, once everything is committed to debian-installer and debian-cd git.

I will make an official announcement to the list.

>> boots with GRUB on CD.
> 
> SUN disk label is actually a hard disk thing. Are there machines which
> boot from USB attached disk storage ?

I think that works as well although I only run Linux inside LDOMs, so I
just attach the ISO to a virtual device.

Adrian

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