>> On Oct 1, 2017, at 11:00 AM, Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> Adrian and Milan,
>>
>> Thank you for the explanations. It’s much clearer to me now!
>>
>> I did a couple of experiments today.
…
>> 2) I did an installation with Adrian’s latest install image (Debian
>> GNU/Linux 9.0 _Sid_ - Unofficial ppc64 NETINST 20170930-18:36). I chose
>> “guided - use whole disk with LVM”. As expected, it created a 1MB HFS
>> bootstrap position and a 250MB /boot (ext2) partition. I chose a minimal
>> system with ssh. All went well and it installed yaboot. I did not see a
>> chance to install grub2 — is that expected? It rebooted fine using yaboot.
>> So all is well on that front.
>>
>> Hope it helps!
>> Rick
> On Oct 1, 2017, at 2:08 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> You can install GRUB instead of Yaboot if you go back to the main menu. The
> GRUB installation menu item comes right after Yaboot.
>
> Try to run it after partitioning manually and let me know what you get. You
> may have to manually mount the HFS partition to /target/boot/grub from a
> shell.
>
> Adrian
I tried the latest: "Debian GNU/Linux 9.0 "Sid" - Unofficial ppc64 NETINST
20171005-07:56”
I did an “expert” mode install. At partitioning time, I created an 8MB
bootable partition and a 250MB ext2 partition for /boot.
There was no “grub” entry in the main menu of the installer [*], so I went
ahead and installed yaboot. It booted fine. After booting I installed the
“grub2” packages (and all its dependent packages) mounted the bootstrap HFS
partition at /boot/grub, and tried to run grub-install. This ran for a bit
then errored out with the message:
error cannot write to `/boot/grub/…` No space left on device.
looking at what it had written, all 8MB was indeed nearly full. The largest
part was 4.1MB taken up by /boot/grub/locales and 1.5MB of fonts.
I didn’t use any options for grub-install. There may be some way to trim down
the un-needed stuff, but I didn’t dig into it that far. If not, then 8MB isn’t
enough space for Grub.
[*] The installer main menu looks like this:
…
Select and install software
Install yaboot on a hard disk
Continue without a boot loader
Finish the installation
…
There is no mention of “grub” anywhere.
Have I missed something?
Rick
