On 11/8/19 7:31 AM, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > Are there somewhere debian-installer images with yaboot as bootloader > instead of Grub, or would I need to build one myself with checkout ?
You could check snapshot.debian.org for older debian-installer images (not sure whether they get mirrored there) but that won't help you as you cannot build working CD images using an old debian-installer image as the kernel version would mismatch with the one in the archive mirror and the installer would complain about being unable to load kernel modules from CD. Also, you would have to revert all changes in debian-cd that switched from the code from Yaboot to GRUB. And if you fixed that, you will also have to re-add the packages "yaboot" and "yaboot-installer" to the archive mirror. And then you will probably run into the problem that the "yaboot" package will no longer build as it depends on an outdated version of ext2. And when you fixed that, you need to revert the changes to partman-ext3 which included a work-around for Yaboot as it doesn't support modern ext4 features. At this point, you will have gone done through so many rabbit holes, that you will be much better off by just fixing ofpathname so it supports all the OpenFirmware path names found on PowerMacs [1], then update grub-installer accordingly [2]. Adrian > [1] https://github.com/ibm-power-utilities/powerpc-utils/issues/30 > [2] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/grub-installer/merge_requests/2 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
