On 09/29/2017 03:16 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 09/29/2017 08:50 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote: >> (...) >> To be able to load the yaboot config file from the partition that holds the >> root FS, >> yaboot needs to know which partition to use. Hence I assume there has to >> be an additional configuration file that is loaded maybe from the PReP >> partition. > > Thanks for the elaborate answer. However, I have come to the conclusion now > that > I am going to drop Yaboot from debian-installer in favor of GRUB, both on > powerpc > as well as ppc64 and even on sparc64. > > I have made some progress and the grub-installer entries already show up in > the > menus of the debian-installer images for ppc64 and sparc64, there is still > some > work left until everything works correctly though. > > Yaboot itself is a lost cause in my opinion. Users have to resort to > workarounds > and upstream is factually dead and it's therefore probably just a matter of > time until the package gets removed from Debian. Let's just focus on GRUB > then. >
I fully agree. As soon as creation of bootable iso images transit to GRUB I can safely ask FTP masters to remove yaboot from Debian repositories. Milan
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