On 09/21/2017 10:37 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
[...]
I have one POWER7 machine that has been provided to me by IBM for testing
purposes and to host one of our buildds. I have performed a test installation
of openSUSE Tumbleweed on it.
Here's the partitioning scheme that is being used:
(parted) p
Model: Virtio Block Device (virtblk)
Disk /dev/vda: 42.9GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 2097kB 1049kB primary boot, prep, type=41
2 2097kB 2163MB 2161MB primary linux-swap(v1) type=82
3 2163MB 18.9GB 16.7GB primary btrfs type=83
4 18.9GB 42.9GB 24.0GB primary xfs type=83
(parted)
Interestingly, /boot is part of the btrfs filesystem:
linux-mfl2:~ # mount | grep boot
/dev/vda3 on /boot/grub2/powerpc-ieee1275 type btrfs
(rw,relatime,space_cache,subvolid=261,subvol=/@/boot/grub2/powerpc-ieee1275)
linux-mfl2:~ #
Do we have information about how it looks (e.g. is it Grub by default
and then, where is it installed?) for a POWER8 machine with Debian
Stretch (ppc64le) installed from an installer image?
If also working for ppc64 and powerpc architecture machines that way it
could be straight-forward to use the same method (with respective
partitioning schemes for Apple and IBM machines) there, too.
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I'm currently updating my Xserve G4 from Wheezy over Jessie to Sid. From
where I will install Grub. I thought it would be useful to first check
if what I described in [1] for ppc64 will also work for powerpc with the
"latest" Grub.
[1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2017/09/msg00034.html
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