On Oct 1, 2017, at 3:47 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> "8 MB/MiB ought to be enough for anybody", don't you agree? ;-)
I’d have no problem with that.
Rick
On 10/01/2017 12:47 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> I recently stumbled upon [1] which mentions an "8M" limit (either 8 MB or
> 8 MiB) for the PReP partition which holds the stage1 binary - most likely
> yaboot or
> grub - for IBM POWER machines.
>
> [1]:
> https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/communi
On 10/01/2017 11:00 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:> 1) I did a test installation
with manual partitioning using the 20170927 installer (Debian GNU/Linux
9.0 _Sid_ - Unofficial ppc64 NETINST 20170925-19:46). I created a 10MB
bootstrap HFS partition and a 250MB /boot ext2 partition. It had no
problem i
You can install GRUB instead of Yaboot if you go back to the main menu. The
GRUB installation menu item comes right after Yaboot.
Try to run it after partioning manually and let me know what you get. You may
have to manually mount the HFS partition to /target/boot/grub from a shell.
Adrian
PS:
Adrian and Milan,
Thank you for the explanations. It’s much clearer to me now!
I did a couple of experiments today.
1) I did a test installation with manual partitioning using the 20170927
installer (Debian GNU/Linux 9.0 _Sid_ - Unofficial ppc64 NETINST
20170925-19:46). I created a 10MB boot
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