Hi Steve, > Hmmm, OK. IIRC there was a change in default path quite a while back > which had this kind of effect, but I *think* that was back > pre-Jessie. We had to cope with this for x86 architectures. *Maybe* > there's a similar change needed for ppc64el too? > > git://git.debian.org/d-i/debian-installer commit > 81109010691ee0fc9357bd10be8fe116b9bb9f84 > > is the thing I'm looking at. Maybe compare the grub.cfg file in each image?
grub.cfg is the same in both mini.iso and debian-testing-ppc64el-netinst.iso. With the failing debian-testing-ppc64el-netinst.iso, I also noticed that when I define "cdrom" alias in the openfirmware, grub loads its menu. --- in the openfirmware : 0 > devalias ibm,sp /vdevice/IBM,sp@4000 network /vdevice/l-lan@30000002 net /vdevice/l-lan@30000002 scsi /vdevice/v-scsi@30000015 nvram /vdevice/nvram@4002 rtc /vdevice/rtc@4001 ok 0 > devalias cdrom /vdevice/v-scsi@30000015/disk@8200000000000000 ok 0 > boot cdrom --- Grub shows the menu and in grub's command line, I have : --- grub> set ?=0 cmdpath=(ieee1275/cdrom,5) color_highlight=black/light-gray color_normal=light-gray/black default=2 feature_200_final=y feature_all_video_module=y feature_chainloader_bpb=y feature_default_font_path=y feature_menuentry_id=y feature_menuentry_options=y feature_nativedisk_cmd=y feature_ntldr=y feature_platform_search_hint=y feature_timeout_style=y grub_cpu=powerpc grub_platform=ieee1275 lang= locale_dir= pager= prefix=(ieee1275/cdrom)/boot/grub root=ieee1275/cdrom secondary_locale_dir= --- Without doing devalias, it's failing to load the menu and I have : --- grub> set ?=0 cmdpath=(ieee1275//vdevice/v-scsi@30000015/disk@8200000000000000,5) color_highlight=black/light-gray color_normal=light-gray/black feature_200_final=y feature_all_video_module=y feature_chainloader_bpb=y feature_default_font_path=y feature_menuentry_id=y feature_menuentry_options=y feature_nativedisk_cmd=y feature_ntldr=y feature_platform_search_hint=y feature_timeout_style=y grub_cpu=powerpc grub_platform=ieee1275 lang= locale_dir= pager= prefix=(ieee1275/cdrom)/boot/grub root=ieee1275/cdrom secondary_locale_dir= --- So it seems that the value cmdpath in grub is different and changes the behaviour. Grub shows version "2.02~beta2-36". mini.iso which works without the devalias workaround, shows the good value of cmdpath i.e. (ieee1275/cdrom,5) and shows "2.02~beta2-36". So I think your commit is good. But the 2 grubs behave differently in determing cmdpath value. They also show the same version. --- $ ls -ltr mini/boot/grub/powerpc.elf debian-testing-ppc64el-netinst/boot/grub/powerpc.elf -r--r--r-- 3 root root 81068 Jan 6 07:37 mini/boot/grub/powerpc.elf -r--r--r-- 1 root root 286964 May 9 02:00 debian-testing-ppc64el-netinst/boot/grub/powerpc.elf --- How does that come ? Do we have different versions of grub actually for testing mini.iso and testing netinst ? or are those binaries build differently from the same source, one missing some functionnalities. I'm still trying to make debian-cd work on my side :) F.
