On 5/13/19 2:50 AM, Gregor Riepl wrote: > - The new GRUB-based CD boot works well. Kudos!
Thanks. > - Mirror listing during install and automatic sources.list config afterwards > is still broken, requiring manual changes according to > https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2016/06/msg00126.html Yes, and this isn't solely up to me to resolve it: See: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=927760 > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=879130 > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=918428 Feel free to leave some feedback there and make some pressure to get things forward. > - The installer still redirects to the onboard Mach64 instead of a sunffb > card, even if a screen is attached. After installation, output goes to the > correct display. I honestly have no idea how to address this. It's also the first time I have heard of this problem. There might be something hardwired somewhere for sparc* from back in the days when sunfb was still part of the kernel. > - The mirror list at https://www.debian.org/mirror/list still lists the sparc > architecture, but not sparc64. Will this get fixed after buster is released? See: > https://salsa.debian.org/mirror-team/masterlist/merge_requests/5 Again, not up to me. > - Using the default partitioning scheme, the installer configures a /boot > partition that is only 100MB (on a 120GB ATA disk). This is too small to hold > more than one kernel plus initrd, apparently - I had trouble upgrading the > kernel package at one point. Yes, I have already heard the partition is too small and I will push an update to partman-auto soonish to address this. This issue also affects machines with Sun partitioning only as for the GPT-capable ones we are not using a separate /boot partition. For Sun labels, a separate /boot is necessary as GRUB uses linked block lists and the blocks need to be below a certain sizes limit (i.e. 10 GiB) for them to work. But I'm not 100% sure on this and one should probably ask GRUB upstream for advise. Any testing and feedback on this issue is welcome so that I don't have to do all this research myself. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
