Re: GRUB is now the default bootloader on sparc64
On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 01:44:45PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi! > > I have now disabled SILO support in debian-installer meaning that > it's no longer possible to install the SILO bootloader when installing > Debian on sparc64. > > [...] > > GRUB is fully supported on sparc64 and, from the various feedback we got > on the mailing list, should be compatible with even the oldest UltraSPARC > machines. So it will work on any machine that run Debian's sparc64 port. Hello Adrian, all. I have been working on getting grub2 running as a step in getting my t5120 running, as the list has been hearing from me. I was/am building from https://github.com/esnowberg/grub2-sparc, using the guide https://github.com/esnowberg/grub2-sparc/wiki. But, this makes me wonder, what is it you've included in the installer if the core grub2 code is not yet inclusive of these changes? (I did try to use the grub2 2.02++ that was on the host, but wasn't able to get it to install, and shifted to the above.) Thanks. I have enough balls in the air on this machine that I'm starting to think I might be better starting from scratch with grub2 now the default. I don't know where to find built ISO's since approximately the date of this email, so I want to ensure the above is effective in an ISO before trying to reinstall from such. - Chris
Re: GRUB is now the default bootloader on sparc64
On 07/02/2018 05:17 AM, Chris Ross wrote: > Hello Adrian, all. I have been working on getting grub2 running as a step > in getting my t5120 running, as the list has been hearing from me. I was/am > building from https://github.com/esnowberg/grub2-sparc, using the guide > https://github.com/esnowberg/grub2-sparc/wiki. But, this makes me wonder, > what is it you've included in the installer if the core grub2 code is not > yet inclusive of these changes? (I did try to use the grub2 2.02++ that > was on the host, but wasn't able to get it to install, and shifted to the > above.) All the sparc64-related changes in GRUB that Debian is carrying in a local patch have already been upstreamed, they are part of the master git repository of GRUB: > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git However, the current released version of GRUB - 2.02 - does not contain the changes yet, they will be part of GRUB 2.04. That's why Debian's grub2 package is still carrying an additional sparc64 patch. This patch will be dropped once 2.04 has been released and uploaded to Debian. > Thanks. I have enough balls in the air on this machine that I'm starting to > think I might be better starting from scratch with grub2 now the default. > I don't know where to find built ISO's since approximately the date of this > email, so I want to ensure the above is effective in an ISO before trying > to reinstall from such. The image found here should be fine and should install GRUB as the default bootloader on sparc64: > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/10.0/sparc64/iso-cd/ It might be though that both the grub-installer and partman-auto debian-installer packages are not up-to-date in this ISO yet which might lead to smaller issues. I will build updated images soonish. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
