On Oct 31, 2017, at 12:41 AM, Frank Scheiner <frank.schei...@web.de> wrote:
> Hi Rick, > > On 10/31/2017 02:46 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> I downloaded and burned the below image. Then I did an install on my >> PowerMac7,3 G5 dual processor. >> When it came time to partition the disk I expanded the HFS NewWorld >> bootstrap partition to 10MB. >> When it got to install grub or install yaboot, I first chose grub-installer. >> That failed. So I went back and tried yaboot-installer, which succeeded. >> I switched to the F2 console and mounted /dev/sda2 (the HFS partition) on >> /target/boot/grub then went back to the main console and tried >> grub-installer again. It failed again. >> What am I doing wrong? > > Currently only the new debconf templates (for d-i/grub-installer) were added > to the installer image (i.e. new "text" for [1]). The `grub-installer` and > `debian/postinst` scripts of d-i/grub-installer are still the original ones > without my modifications. So the GRUB installation won't work without prior > installation of the modifications - which I currently do during installations > to test and finalize my modifications. > > [1]: > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/grub-installer.git/tree/debian/grub-installer.templates?id=60b7ec8a721e611b3c47f4327fe4ba3555d32532 > > Hence some additional time and discussion is still needed before this will be > fully included, sorry. > > Cheers, > Frank Thanks, Frank! Can you give me instructions for how to install your modifications during installation? I’d love to help with the debugging if I can. Enjoy! Rick
