Re: New ppc64 installer image available -- installation test report

2017-09-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 25, 2017, at 1:02 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 09/25/2017 10:26 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>> However the partitioning scheme used by “guided — use whole disk" doesn't >>> produce an HFS+ "bootstrap" partition or an ext2 "/boot" partition. >>> I created the two m

Re: New ppc64 installer image available -- installation test report

2017-09-25 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 09/25/2017 10:26 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> However the partitioning scheme used by “guided — use whole disk" doesn't >> produce an HFS+ "bootstrap" partition or an ext2 "/boot" partition. >> I created the two missing partitions manually, and let it proceed to the >> “pick a repo

Re: debian-installer: please default to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc instead of yaboot

2017-09-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 05:19:00PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > Quick question: what about directly booting a zImage from OpenFirmware, > is that still an option? Not sure. It makes it hard to pick which kernel to boot though, and hard to pass arguments to the kernel, and since we must use an in

Re: debian-installer: please default to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc instead of yaboot

2017-09-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 03:15:15PM +, luigi burdo wrote: > I had in past issue with grub on opensuse, i have a G5 970MP. > > Adrian make a great present to us, making us have again debian working on BE . > > please do not made again it not usable on our hardware choosing grub. I have had iss

Re: debian-installer: please default to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc instead of yaboot

2017-09-25 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 25.09.2017 16:48, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > powerpc/ppc64: > On IBM use DOS partition table with a prep boot partition for grub. > On Apple use Apple partition table (I don't know where grub is installed > on those). Quick question: what about directly booting a zImage from OpenFirmware,

Re: debian-installer: please default to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc instead of yaboot

2017-09-25 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 09/25/2017 05:05 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: But I thought about where Grub (modules) is/are installed (i.e. own partition, `/boot/grub[...]/`, etc.) on ppc64el. And what is used as boot loader, a Grub image with all needed modules included, or a small Grub image that loads its modules from some

Re: debian-installer: please default to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc instead of yaboot

2017-09-25 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 09/25/2017 04:50 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 09/25/2017 04:48 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: Well I think at this point it seems the only option is: powerpc/ppc64: On IBM use DOS partition table with a prep boot partition for grub. On Apple use Apple partition table (I don't know wh

Re: debian-installer: please default to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc instead of yaboot

2017-09-25 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 09/25/2017 04:48 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: Well I think at this point it seems the only option is: powerpc/ppc64: On IBM use DOS partition table with a prep boot partition for grub. On Apple use Apple partition table (I don't know where grub is installed on those). I thought we already ag

Re: debian-installer: please default to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc instead of yaboot

2017-09-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 02:25:32PM +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote: > Do we have information about how it looks (e.g. is it Grub by default and > then, where is it installed?) for a POWER8 machine with Debian Stretch > (ppc64le) installed from an installer image? > > If also working for ppc64 and powe

Re: New ppc64 installer image available -- installation test report

2017-09-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 25, 2017, at 1:26 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> I used an earlier CD which went into rescue mode OK. > > Hmm. Ok. Do you know when this CD was generated? Sure… The one that worked was the previous CD from you. Rick

Re: New ppc64 installer image available -- installation test report

2017-09-25 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Rick! Thanks for your detailed feedback, this is very appreciated. On 09/25/2017 09:08 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: The partitioner no longer complains about not knowing which partitioning scheme to use, which is good news. As I expected and also verified with my POWER7 VM. However the partit