On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 02:34:42PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Steve McIntyre wrote:
> 
> > > I've also just added ppc64el to the daily and weekly build config -
> > > let's see how well it works!
> 
> Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> 
> > It seems the daily build has worked correctly.
> 
> If you mean
>   
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/ppc64el/iso-cd/debian-testing-ppc64el-netinst.iso
> then it lacks the CHRP (MBR) partition table.

At least I was able to boot it, but maybe SLOF doesn't need it.

> The xorriso command line in /.disk/mkisofs matches this.
> It contains no boot options.
> 
> In your patch of  Fri, 3 Oct 2014 00:33:01 +0200 i see
> 
>   +if [ -d CD$N/ppc/bootinfo.txt ] ; then
>   +    add_mkisofs_opt $CDDIR/../$N.mkisofs_opts "-chrp-boot"
>   +fi
> 
> which did not come into effect or else would have sabotaged
> the production run with message
>   xorriso : FAILURE : -as mkisofs: Unsupported option '-chrp-boot'

-chrp-boot is an option supported by genisoimage, but it looks like it's
not the case of xorriso. Note that this option is also use in the
powerpc build.

> The reason why it did not influence the production run is most
> probably the test option -d for the data file ppc/bootinfo.txt.

Oops.

> How about this:
> 
>   if [ -f CD$N/ppc/bootinfo.txt ] ; then
>        add_mkisofs_opt $CDDIR/../$N.mkisofs_opts "-chrp-boot-part"
>   fi

Looks fine. Thanks for the fix.

Aurelien

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