On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 01:00:04AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 12:33:01AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > >Hi Steve, > > > >On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 10:02:34AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:47:10PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > >> > The tarball should be decompressed in the root of the CD-ROM, while the > >> > kernel and initrd should be placed in the /install directory. The ISO > >> > image should be generated with the --chrp-boot argument. Beside that the > >> > default options of genisoimage should be used, there is no need to > >> > specify any strange HFS option like on powerpc (Note: I only tested that > >> > on a VM using SLOF, it will be nice if someone with access to bare metal > >> > can confirm that). > >> > > >> > Don't hesitate to ask more details if needed. I will tell you once GRUB > >> > is fixed and all these files are in place on d-i.debian.org. > >> > >> GRUB is now fixed, and the latest daily build of d-i does have the CDROM > >> files available: > >> > >> http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/ppc64el/daily/cdrom/ > > > >Please find attached a patch to add ppc64el support to debian-cd. Could > >you please merge it? > > Done, and pushed. > > I've also just added ppc64el to the daily and weekly build config - > let's see how well it works!
Thanks! It seems the daily build has worked correctly. Unfortunately the d-i's cdrom flavour misses the SCSI modules to access the CD-ROM, so a full installation is not possible. I have fixed that in the d-i git, it has missed the beta2 release, but should be in tomorrow's daily. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141003093819.gr3...@hall.aurel32.net
