On 10/06/2017 11:06 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 10/06/2017 10:56 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I tried the latest: "Debian GNU/Linux 9.0 "Sid" - Unofficial ppc64 NETINST
20171005-07:56”
I did an “expert” mode install. At partitioning time, I created an 8MB
bootable partition and a 250MB ext2 partition for /boot.
There was no “grub” entry in the main menu of the installer [*], so I went
ahead and installed yaboot.
Oh, this must have broken recently. I will give it a try later today and see
why that's the case. The
grub-installer package is definitely now officially built for ppc64 and sparc64
[1], so I'm not sure
why it's not showing up for you.
Ah, the problem is most likely the debian/isinstallable script in
grub-installer [1]. It's
already checking for the existence of the /boot/grub HFS partition when the
grub-installer
package is pulled in by anna (debian-installer's version of APT).
However, at the time when grub-installer is pulled in by debian-installer,
there are no
partitions yet at all so naturally the GRUB installation item will never show
up on
these machines.
Also, the check from [1] is already present in the actual grub-installer script
[2], so
it doesn't really make sense that it's part of debian/isinstallable. I will
therefore
remove it from [1].
Thanks for testing and spotting this problem!
Adrian
[1]
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/grub-installer.git/tree/debian/isinstallable#n22
[2]
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/grub-installer.git/tree/grub-installer#n241
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