On Oct 6, 2017, at 2:17 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> On 10/06/2017 11:06 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> On 10/06/2017 10:56 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >>> 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. >> Oh, this must have broken recently. I will give it a try later today and see >> why that's the case. The >> grub-installer package is definitely now officially built for ppc64 and >> sparc64 [1], so I'm not sure >> why it's not showing up for you. > Ah, the problem is most likely the debian/isinstallable script in > grub-installer [1]. It's > already checking for the existence of the /boot/grub HFS partition when the > grub-installer > package is pulled in by anna (debian-installer's version of APT). > > However, at the time when grub-installer is pulled in by debian-installer, > there are no > partitions yet at all so naturally the GRUB installation item will never show > up on > these machines. > > Also, the check from [1] is already present in the actual grub-installer > script [2], so > it doesn't really make sense that it's part of debian/isinstallable. I will > therefore > remove it from [1]. > > Thanks for testing and spotting this problem! > > Adrian > >> [1] >> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/grub-installer.git/tree/debian/isinstallable#n22 >> [2] >> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/grub-installer.git/tree/grub-installer#n241 Great! I’ll test it this weekend. Can you also somehow make it automatically mount the HFS partition at /boot/grub ? So I don’t have to breakout to a shell and do it manually? (That can wait, of course, til we get grub install to work at all…) As you hinted, it can’t mount /boot/grub until after it has been formatted as HFS (currently by yaboot install) Is there a chicken/egg problem here? You can’t install grub without installing yaboot first, so it’s not possible to install without yaboot… So we can’t actually get rid of yaboot at all? Rick
