debian-installer offb console bug on PowerPC

2024-10-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello, I was finally able to track down the problem this morning which breaks debian-installer console output on powerpc and ppc64 since kernel v6.8. There is a patch [1] in the current Debian kernel package which was supposed to fix the exact same problem [2] on ppc64el and it was introduced wit

Bug#1078871: installer: reserve first 16 MiB space in default recipes for ARM devices?

2024-10-21 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Mon Oct 21, 2024 at 5:16 PM CEST, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > On 21/10/2024 at 10:26, Diederik de Haas wrote: > > On Sun Oct 20, 2024 at 8:49 PM CEST, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >> On 20/10/2024 at 16:28, Diederik de Haas wrote: > >>> > >>> ``` > >>> root@cs21:~# parted -s /dev/mmcblk1 print > >>> Mo

Bug#1078871: installer: reserve first 16 MiB space in default recipes for ARM devices?

2024-10-21 Thread Pascal Hambourg
On 21/10/2024 at 10:26, Diederik de Haas wrote: On Sun Oct 20, 2024 at 8:49 PM CEST, Pascal Hambourg wrote: On 20/10/2024 at 16:28, Diederik de Haas wrote: ``` root@cs21:~# parted -s /dev/mmcblk1 print Model: MMC NCard (sd/mmc) Disk /dev/mmcblk1: 61.9GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512

Bug#1078871: installer: reserve first 16 MiB space in default recipes for ARM devices?

2024-10-21 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Sun Oct 20, 2024 at 8:49 PM CEST, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > On 20/10/2024 at 16:28, Diederik de Haas wrote: > > > > AFAIUI, UEFI requires GPT, but GPT does not require UEFI. > > No, UEFI does not require GPT, at least not on my amd64 machines > (including QEMU+OVMF). It also supports booting on