On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 02:09:29PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 09:57:44AM -0300, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira wrote: > >On 09/22/2014 12:00 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > >>On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 06:19:43PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >>>I'm adding support for new architectures at the moment. powerpc is one > >>>of the most awkward existing arches to add boot support for at the > >>>moment, due to the mess of older machines. I'm hoping that ppc64el is > >>>better, but I don't have much information to go on. What should we be > >>>doing to make bootable CD/DVD/USB images for ppc64el, please? > > > >Aurelien and Paulo know more about the bootable status/steps than me. > > > >I believe that w/ the grub2 and klibc uploads from this last weekend, > >it's almost there. There's powerpc-utils & util-linux coming in from > >DELAYED in 2 days & 5 days. > > OK, cool.
Indeed bootable CD images are done with GRUB on ppc64el, but it is currently broken. debian-installer will provide a kernel, a vmlinux and a file called debian-cd_info.tar.gz containing the grub files. I have put an example of such a directory tree there: http://temp.aurel32.net/ppc64el/d-i/ The tarball should be decompressed in the root of the CD-ROM, while the kernel and initrd should be placed in the /install directory. The ISO image should be generated with the --chrp-boot argument. Beside that the default options of genisoimage should be used, there is no need to specify any strange HFS option like on powerpc (Note: I only tested that on a VM using SLOF, it will be nice if someone with access to bare metal can confirm that). Don't hesitate to ask more details if needed. I will tell you once GRUB is fixed and all these files are in place on d-i.debian.org. Thanks, Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140922204710.gb5...@hall.aurel32.net