On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 6:43 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayl...@ilande.co.uk> wrote: > On 10/02/18 16:07, Frank Scheiner wrote: > >> On 02/10/2018 03:29 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>> >>> On 02/10/2018 10:22 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: >>>> >>>> My existing Jessie test image (debian-8.5.0-powerpc-netinst.iso) works >>>> fine, so it looks like there is a regression somewhere in the boot loader >>>> configuration. >>>> Does anyone know what has changed between these two images that could >>>> cause this to break? >>> >>> >>> Possibly relevant discussion: >>> >>>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2017/10/msg00089.html >>>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2017/10/msg00118.html >> >> >> Yeah, maybe it's just the yaboot versions (1.3.16 for Jessie, 1.3.17 for >> Sid), that makes the difference. > > > It's annoying that something has regressed here though: is there an official > git repo for yaboot to check out the differences between 1.3.16 and 1.3.17? > > The fact that it still works on real hardware suggests that something has > changed here: is it possible to generate a test ISO using 1.3.16 yaboot to > see if that starts working under QEMU again? That would narrow things down > immensely.
The main thing that changed was: https://bugs.debian.org/825110 But I thought this had been fixed in the installer now.
