Re: New discussion: ppc64 installer -- ext2 /boot partition to keep yaboot happy.

2017-10-31 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Adrian, Rick, On 10/31/2017 09:00 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 10/31/2017 08:38 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: The only way I can contribute to this effort to get grub2 working on powerpc is if I get a clear, succinct set of instructions at the level of detail of, for example, “at this po

Re: New discussion: ppc64 installer -- ext2 /boot partition to keep yaboot happy.

2017-10-31 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/31/2017 08:38 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > The only way I can contribute to this effort to get grub2 working on powerpc > is if I get a clear, succinct set of instructions at the level of detail of, > for example, “at this point in the installation, open a console window and > download this file

Re: New discussion: ppc64 installer -- ext2 /boot partition to keep yaboot happy.

2017-10-31 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 31, 2017, at 12:12 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 10/31/2017 07:57 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> Can you give me instructions for how to install your modifications >> during installation? I’d love to help with the debugging if I can. > > This has already been extensively discuss

Re: New discussion: ppc64 installer -- ext2 /boot partition to keep yaboot happy.

2017-10-31 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/31/2017 07:57 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > Can you give me instructions for how to install your modifications > during installation? I’d love to help with the debugging if I can. This has already been extensively discussed on the mailing list. Please refer to the archives [1]. Adrian > [1] ht

Re: New discussion: ppc64 installer -- ext2 /boot partition to keep yaboot happy.

2017-10-31 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 31, 2017, at 12:41 AM, Frank Scheiner 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 >> bo

Re: New discussion: ppc64 installer -- ext2 /boot partition to keep yaboot happy.

2017-10-31 Thread Frank Scheiner
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 yab