Grub2: How safe is it?

2007-05-17 Thread Jack Malmostoso
Hi all, I was checking out new packages in the Debian repository and I have noticed that grub2 is now available on ppc. I'd be more than interested to try it out, but I don't really want to screw up my system. Is there anyone who tried it instead of yaboot? Is it safe to install? Are there

Re: Grub2: How safe is it?

2007-05-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 08:18:59AM +, Jack Malmostoso wrote: Hi all, I was checking out new packages in the Debian repository and I have noticed that grub2 is now available on ppc. I'd be more than interested to try it out, but I don't really want to screw up my system. Notice that

Re: Grub2: How safe is it?

2007-05-17 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Thu, 17 May 2007 11:00:09 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Just make sure you have a debian-installer media ready before you do the try. Downloaded, just in case. Anyway the package grub-of does not install because of /usr/sbin/grub- mkdevicemap missing from the package. Bug #424757 has already

Re: Grub2: How safe is it?

2007-05-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:53:06AM +, Jack Malmostoso wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2007 11:00:09 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Just make sure you have a debian-installer media ready before you do the try. Downloaded, just in case. Anyway the package grub-of does not install because of

Re: Grub2: How safe is it?

2007-05-17 Thread Robert Millan
tag 424757 pending thanks On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:36:30PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:53:06AM +, Jack Malmostoso wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2007 11:00:09 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Just make sure you have a debian-installer media ready before you do the try.

Builds disturbed by the usage of a 64bit kernel.

2007-05-17 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, Starting from the observation that a pre-release debian pacakge of root-system and the current xaralx (non-free) pacakge fail to build from source on G5 powerpc machines but not on G4, I started to get worried that that kind of failures would be more widespread. The core of the problem

Re: Builds disturbed by the usage of a 64bit kernel.

2007-05-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 12:13:34PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Dear all, Starting from the observation that a pre-release debian pacakge of root-system and the current xaralx (non-free) pacakge fail to build from source on G5 powerpc machines but not on G4, I started to get worried that