Re: Maturity of GRUB on powerpc/ppc64?

2017-10-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/02/2017 05:04 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: As a follow-up to [1] but maybe better placed under the subject of this thread, the promised details for the Grub installation on an Xserve G4 with Debian Sid. Thanks. Is there any specify reason why you aren't using grub-install? If I remember cor

Re: Maturity of GRUB on powerpc/ppc64?

2017-10-04 Thread Richard Kuenz
Just one sidenote, please forgive me but i am no expert and did not read all your messages, i have one computer with intel i7 2600 and one ssd in it it had windows installed; it was very difficult to install on the same harddrive debian (on a separate partition , of course) and get GRUB recogn

Re: Maturity of GRUB on powerpc/ppc64?

2017-10-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/04/2017 11:24 AM, Richard Kuenz wrote: i have one computer with intel i7 2600 and one ssd in it it had windows installed; it was very difficult to install on the same harddrive debian (on a separate partition , of course) and get GRUB recognized at startup. Probably because it is UEFI only

Re: Maturity of GRUB on powerpc/ppc64?

2017-10-04 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 10/04/2017 10:50 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 10/02/2017 05:04 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: As a follow-up to [1] but maybe better placed under the subject of this thread, the promised details for the Grub installation on an Xserve G4 with Debian Sid. Thanks. Is there any specify r

Re: Maturity of GRUB on powerpc/ppc64?

2017-10-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/04/2017 12:41 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: On 10/04/2017 10:50 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 10/02/2017 05:04 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: As a follow-up to [1] but maybe better placed under the subject of this thread, the promised details for the Grub installation on an Xserve G4 wit

Re: Maturity of GRUB on powerpc/ppc64?

2017-10-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/04/2017 12:50 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 10/04/2017 12:41 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: On 10/04/2017 10:50 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Thanks. Is there any specify reason why you aren't using grub-install? Yes - it's a known working method. I know that it worked that

Re: Maturity of GRUB on powerpc/ppc64?

2017-10-04 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 10/04/2017 01:22 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: [...] FWIW, you can modify the script in /usr/bin/grub-installer while the installation session is running. Then you can make the necessary modifications until the installation works by just selecting the GRUB option from the menu item.

Re: Maturity of GRUB on powerpc/ppc64?

2017-10-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/04/2017 03:16 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Hey Adrian, you are really helpful! :-) So are all your tests. Your input is really appreciated, thank you! I will check this out for the Power Macs and try to fix any issues on the way by directly adapting `/usr/bin/grub-installer`. Yep, that's

Re: Maturity of GRUB on powerpc/ppc64?

2017-10-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 03:25:20PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 10/04/2017 03:16 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: > > Hey Adrian, you are really helpful! :-) > > So are all your tests. Your input is really appreciated, thank you! > > > I will check this out for the Power Macs and try to

Re: Maturity of GRUB on powerpc/ppc64?

2017-10-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/04/2017 06:23 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: It is not a flag, it is a partition type. PPC PReP Boot is partition type 0x41. Similar to how Linux is type 0x83 and Linux swap is type 0x82. I don't remember if it wants the boot flag set on it or not. Are you sure? The parted manual seems to

Re: Maturity of GRUB on powerpc/ppc64?

2017-10-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 06:36:33PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Are you sure? The parted manual seems to say otherwise: > > > http://www.hep.by/gnu/parted/set.html > > And I can fix the problem by manually running the parted command: > > set prep 1 on No I am not sure. I kno

Re: Maturity of GRUB on powerpc/ppc64?

2017-10-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/04/2017 06:47 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > No I am not sure. I know there is a partition type for it though, and > the debian installer for powerpc always created it properly on an IBM > pseries for me so I never looked at the details. Hmm. I could create an updated debian-installer image

Re: Maturity of GRUB on powerpc/ppc64?

2017-10-04 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 06:36:33PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 10/04/2017 06:23 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > It is not a flag, it is a partition type. PPC PReP Boot is partition > > type 0x41. Similar to how Linux is type 0x83 and Linux swap is type 0x82. > > > > I don't reme

Re: Maturity of GRUB on powerpc/ppc64?

2017-10-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/04/2017 08:10 PM, Gabriel Paubert wrote: >> Are you sure? The parted manual seems to say otherwise: > > Of what? That it is partition type 0x41, 100%. > > sudo fdisk -l (trimmed) on my machine: I think we already settled that earlier today as Lennart explained. It would have been more pro