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.
Luigi
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
On 09/21/2017 10:37 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
[...]
I have one POWER7 machine that has been provided to me by IBM for testing
purposes and to host one of our buildds. I have performed a test installation
of openSUSE Tumbleweed on it.
Here's the partitioning scheme that is being used:
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 12:10:17PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On Thu 2017-09-21 10:26:08 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> > I like this idea but i don't have a lot of spare machines handy to try
> > d-i on these days. I can try to dig up a power supply for an idle older
> > ppc laptop
On 09/22/2017 08:41 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 11:49:38AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> I was just wondering whether it makes sense for GRUB to use MS-DOS partition
>> on a Mac, thinking it may be better than Mac partition tables, I was
>> basically just thin
On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 11:49:38AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> I was just wondering whether it makes sense for GRUB to use MS-DOS partition
> on a Mac, thinking it may be better than Mac partition tables, I was
> basically just thinking aloud. If it's not necessary for GRUB to work
>
On 09/21/2017 11:14 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
Well as long as grub can read that, then no problem. So as long as
grub-install is including btrfs support in the grub image placed in the
prep boot partition, then /boot can be on btrfs. That is almost certainly
the case.
Yeah, I guess that's t
Hi Adrian,
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 2:21 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I would help with this transition to use GRUB on powerpc as well
> as on ppc64 which we are now providing unofficial installation
> for in Debian Ports [1].
Missing link '1'.
> I do have commit access to debi
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 10:37:43PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> I have one POWER7 machine that has been provided to me by IBM for testing
> purposes and to host one of our buildds. I have performed a test installation
> of openSUSE Tumbleweed on it.
>
> Here's the partitioning scheme
On 09/21/2017 07:02 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 06:26:10PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> Ok, good to know. What about GPT partition tables? On ppc64el, i.e. POWER8
>> and newer, the default labels are all GPT. Any idea which is the earliest
>> POWER5+ machine
On 09/21/2017 08:54 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> One more note: iirc, all of these systems were using an apple-style
> partition table (parted creates this type with "mklabel mac").
This is defined here [1] and can be easily changed if necessary.
Adrian
> [1]
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cg
On Thu 2017-09-21 12:10:17 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> I should mention: i currently run (and have run in the past) many
> powerpc systems (old Mac hardware, mainly, running an OpenFirmware forth
> shell from the mainboard), all of which i either directly installed with
> grub (via debootst
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 06:26:10PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Ok, good to know. What about GPT partition tables? On ppc64el, i.e. POWER8
> and newer, the default labels are all GPT. Any idea which is the earliest
> POWER5+ machine which supports GPT or should we just assume MS-DOS
>
On 09/21/2017 04:32 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Well in the case of IBM power systems, you use a DOS MBR partition scheme
> and you create a Prep boot partition, which should be 1MB or so in size,
> and grub is installed there as a raw image. Has been working fine for
> a while as far as I have
On Thu 2017-09-21 10:26:08 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> I like this idea but i don't have a lot of spare machines handy to try
> d-i on these days. I can try to dig up a power supply for an idle older
> ppc laptop i've got floating around, but i don't know whether i'll be
> able to find it.
On Thu 2017-09-21 14:21:52 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> I would help with this transition to use GRUB on powerpc as well
> as on ppc64 which we are now providing unofficial installation
> for in Debian Ports [1].
>
> I do have commit access to debian-installer and its components
> as
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 02:49:53PM +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> On 09/21/2017 02:21 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > [...]
> > What we need are people who are willing to extensively test d-i
> > images with GRUB on powerpc and ppc64 and report back.
>
> I can offer to test with all sorts
On 09/21/2017 02:21 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
[...]
What we need are people who are willing to extensively test d-i
images with GRUB on powerpc and ppc64 and report back.
I can offer to test with all sorts of Power Mac G4s and an Xserve G4 for
powerpc. I still need to buy a few CD-R
Hi!
I would help with this transition to use GRUB on powerpc as well
as on ppc64 which we are now providing unofficial installation
for in Debian Ports [1].
I do have commit access to debian-installer and its components
as well as access to an IBM POWER7 instance which can be used
to test both p
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