On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:47:10PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > 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.
GRUB is now fixed, and the latest daily build of d-i does have the CDROM files available: http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/ppc64el/daily/cdrom/ 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/20140927080234.gc3...@hall.aurel32.net