On 05/16/2018 08:15 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: > Unfortunately booting the CDROM kernel and initrd via GRUB2 over the network > did not work as expected by me: > > After the installer started it wants to load its components from the > non-existing CDROM, of course... :-( > > There is no command line switch for the installer (kernel) that will make it > behave like a netboot installer, right?
This is expected. You cannot use the cdrom debian-installer initrd for netboot and vice versa. If you want to perform a netboot, you have to use the initrd for netboot which is inside the debian-installer-images tarball as found on the FTP servers in the pool-sparc64/main/d/debian-installer subdirectory. Since the d-i current image is outdated, use the one from here: > https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-cd/debian-installer-images_20171204_sparc64.tar.gz Please note that even the "NETINST" images are still CD images. Real netboot images just require a kernel and initrd. The netboot initrd contains the necessary network drivers and is designed to fetch udebs over the internet. > So I wrote the image to a CDRW and started the installation from there. > > The partitioning worked correctly with the added snippet and created a layout > that resembles the recipe without the snippet: >> (...) > If it creates the bios_grub "partition" on your gpt capable machine with the > snippet included, it could be save for inclusion in d-i/partman-auto. Thanks for the confirmation. I will test later as I didn't have the time yet. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913