Hi, Pascal Hambourg <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote (Sun, 12 Jan 2025 14:13:40 +0100): > Hello, > > On 12/01/2025 at 11:53, Holger Wansing wrote: > > Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> wrote (Sun, 12 Jan 2025 11:21:08 +0100): > >> oliviosu_ppc6...@tutanota.com <oliviosu_ppc6...@tutanota.com> (2025-01-12): > >>> Hello, > >>> installing Trixie Alpha 1 on Tyan TN71-BP012 (POWER8) > >>> (/images/trixie_di_alpha1/ppc64el 2024/12/31) > >>> > >>> Installation goes well but installed system isn't bootable with Petitboot. > >>> Installation was made choosing automated partitioning for an entrier disk > >>> with LVM and luks. > >>> Doing that unencrypted /boot partition is ext4 and Petitboot can't see it. > >>> When partitioning if I edit /boot partition and set it to ext2 then after > >>> finishing installation, > >>> PetitBoot see it and I'm able to boot in the installed system. > >> > >> Sorry to hear about that. Looping in debian-boot@ who's responsible for > >> the installer components that implement those choices. > > The move from ext2 to ext4 for /boot was in response to bug #985463 > <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=985463> after it was > considered that bootloaders such as GRUB and U-Boot currently used with > Debian supported ext4. > > Inndeed it is unfortunate that a modern boot loader like Petitboot does > not support ext4. It is even unexpected from a boot loader based on a > Linux kernel, as mentioned in > <https://open-power.github.io/petitboot/overview.html>. > > > thanks for pointing me on this. > > I have just pushed a fix for this, reverting back to ext2: > > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/partman-auto/-/commit/a87cccbe0198b4dea2cc46a39d5f5b99501aa095 > > Partitioning recipes for ppc64el create a separate /boot partition only > when using LVM (and this was never changed). When using plain > partitions, /boot is on the ext4 root partition so the above fix will > have no effect.
The report was for guided partitioning with encrypted LVM. So I assumed the above would fit. Am I missing something? > According to > <https://github.com/open-power/petitboot/blob/master/README.md> and > <https://open-power.github.io/petitboot/platforms.html>, Petitboot is > also available for arm64 platforms. Partitioning recipes for arm64 also > use ext4 for /boot, so it would not work either. Hmm, is it widely used on arm64, or only a cornercase? Is it worth to change the default on arm64 just for petitboot? Holger -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
