[PATCH] Add support for GPT partitioned disks on sparc/sparc64

2018-03-05 Thread Frank Scheiner
The following patch adds support for GPT partitioned disks on sparc(64) to d-i/grub-installer. The installation method is chosen based on the detected subarch currently. It auto-selects the partition for /boot as target for grub-install on systems without GPT support and the actual disk device on

[PATCH] Add specific recipes for GPT partitioning on sparc/sparc64

2018-03-05 Thread Frank Scheiner
The following patch will add d-i/partman-auto recipes for sparc/sparc64 on sun4u and sun4v based systems with GPT support. They are based on the default recipes (below ./recipes) and the recipes for sparc (below ./recipes-sparc). In contrast to the default of a 1 MB sized BIOS_GRUB partition

Re: Re: GRUB testers on SPARC needed

2018-03-05 Thread Hermann Lauer
On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 11:45:16AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > At least with the stretch installer there is no problem with using a MBR > > partitioning > > on the am64 arch. You maybe can't select it, but if you generate a MBR > > partitioning using > > the shell inside the

Re: Re: GRUB testers on SPARC needed

2018-03-05 Thread Hermann Lauer
On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 01:09:40AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 03/02/2018 10:27 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: > >> On x86, it will automatically use GPT if the machine is booted in EFI > >> mode. ... ... > >> I know you try to make the most compatible design to fit all use cases, >

Re: GRUB testers on SPARC needed

2018-03-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 03/05/2018 11:32 AM, Hermann Lauer wrote: At least with the stretch installer there is no problem with using a MBR partitioning on the am64 arch. You maybe can't select it, but if you generate a MBR partitioning using the shell inside the installer this will work. Ok, after a quick look