Re: Unable to boot debian ports debian-9.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso image in QEMU

2018-02-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On Feb 13, 2018, at 7:39 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland > wrote: > >> On 12/02/18 10:55, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> >>> On 02/12/2018 11:52 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >>> From the look at the error message, I thought this was the hack >>> milan@d.o used with: >>> >>> https://packages.debi

Re: Unable to boot debian ports debian-9.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso image in QEMU

2018-02-13 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 13/02/18 09:16, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Feb 13, 2018, at 7:39 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: On 12/02/18 10:55, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 02/12/2018 11:52 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: From the look at the error message, I thought this was the hack milan@d.o used wit

Re: Unable to boot debian ports debian-9.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso image in QEMU

2018-02-13 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Adrian, On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 10:16 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >> On Feb 13, 2018, at 7:39 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland >> wrote: >> >>> On 12/02/18 10:55, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>> On 02/12/2018 11:52 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: From the look at the error message,

Re: Unable to boot debian ports debian-9.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso image in QEMU

2018-02-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 02/13/2018 11:03 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: I can upload a version of Yaboot today with this patch reverted provided that Yaboot still builds fine on unstable without the hack you used. I call it a hack, but really this is the best long term solution there is. Yaboot is filled with empty

Re: Unable to boot debian ports debian-9.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso image in QEMU

2018-02-13 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 11:06 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 02/13/2018 11:03 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >>> >>> I can upload a version of Yaboot today with this patch reverted provided >>> that Yaboot still builds fine on unstable without the hack you used. >> >> >> I call it a hack,

Re: Unable to boot debian ports debian-9.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso image in QEMU

2018-02-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 02/13/2018 11:27 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: The fixed version: https://packages.debian.org/sid/e2fslibs1.41-dev is in archive, and currently build just fine. You can consider as if yaboot had its own convenient copy of e2fslibs. Does that answer your question ? Or did I miss the point ?

Re: Unable to boot debian ports debian-9.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso image in QEMU

2018-02-13 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 11:38 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 02/13/2018 11:27 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> >> The fixed version: >> >> https://packages.debian.org/sid/e2fslibs1.41-dev >> >> is in archive, and currently build just fine. You can consider as if >> yaboot had its own con

Re: Unable to boot debian ports debian-9.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso image in QEMU

2018-02-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 02/13/2018 11:40 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: My guess (crystal ball) is that he used the non-fixed version: https://packages.debian.org/sid/e2fslibs-dev The e2fslibs-dev is not the non-fixed version, but rather e2fslibs1.41-dev is the old version that is currently just kept being around to

Re: Unable to boot debian ports debian-9.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso image in QEMU

2018-02-13 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 13/02/18 10:38, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 02/13/2018 11:27 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: The fixed version: https://packages.debian.org/sid/e2fslibs1.41-dev is in archive, and currently build just fine. You can consider as if yaboot had its own convenient copy of e2fslibs. Does t

Re: Unable to boot debian ports debian-9.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso image in QEMU

2018-02-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 02/13/2018 02:04 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: That's probably because I am still using Jessie as a base environment rather than going through the process of setting up a sid-chroot in order just to build yaboot-1.3.17. Well, we are not dealing with Debian Jessie in Debian Ports. Jessie is

Re: Unable to boot debian ports debian-9.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso image in QEMU

2018-02-13 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 13/02/18 13:13, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: If you have patches ready that I can apply to the yaboot package, I am happy to apply them and perform an NMU to fix the particular issue you have. Gah - I've got it, and it's an OpenBIOS memory allocation bug so yaboot isn't the culprit he