Bug#619236: [Cbe-oss-dev] Bug#619236: debian PS3 installation kboot.conf needed
On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 22:21:28 +0100 Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org wrote: Adding -powerpc to the loop. Initial bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619236 Geoff Levand ge...@infradead.org (2013-09-04): We still have a need for the kboot-utils package in debian. Recent daily builds of D-I work fine on PS3, but the installed system still cannot boot due to lack of a kboot.conf file for the PS3's native bootloader (petitboot). Is anyone working on getting better PS3 support? As you can read from the last message in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619236 I don't have a PS3 to test patches on but I looked at the last bits missing for a successful installation, TBH more to learn something about d-i than for anything else. Anyhow, if anyone is willing to test the changes I will spend some more time to send proper patches to d-i. Ciao, Antonio -- Antonio Ospite http://ao2.it A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140524235444.bbdbe5b1c145357a6a2ab...@ao2.it
Bug#619236: debian PS3 installation kboot.conf needed
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 09:34:41 +0100 Wouter Verhelst w...@uter.be wrote: Op maandag 3 maart 2014 10:38:12 schreef Antonio Ospite: kboot-utils is in Debian[1] already, all that is missing is to find a way to tell the installer: if this system is a PS3, then install kboot-utils Can anyone suggest where this kind of logic can be added in d-i? I didn't manage to allocate enough time to look deeper into that. If the PS3 needs some special partitioning (it's been a while since I upgraded my PS3 to something that can't run Linux anymore, so I don't remember) then I would suggest a partman module. If not, I guess finish-install is the best place to do it. I had some minutes to spare and I looked a little further into this; I think we could use pkgsel along with archdetect for this: the latter is in the hw-detect[1] package, which uses libdebian-installer[2]. It looks like archdetect knows about the PS3 already[3], so maybe it can be called in pkgsel[4], like done for laptop-detect[5], hopefully something like the following may be enough: --- [d-i/pkgsel.git]/pre-pkgsel.d/20kboot-utils --- #!/bin/sh set -e # Install kboot-utils on PS3 case $(archdetect) in powerpc/ps3) apt-install kboot-utils || true ;; esac --- Unfortunately I don't know the exact output of archdetect on the PS3 as I don't have mine anymore. If anyone can provide the output of archdetect (is it only available while installing?) I can send a patch to pkgsel. Thanks, Antonio [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/hw-detect.git;a=summary [2] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/libdebian-installer.git;a=summary [3] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/libdebian-installer.git;a=blob;f=src/system/subarch-powerpc-linux.c;h=a91a4347e83f8ad9e97afb8285e1fbbbfd2aee8b;hb=HEAD#l33 [4] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/pkgsel.git;a=summary [5] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/pkgsel.git;a=blob;f=pre-pkgsel.d/10laptop-detect;h=472cda224e4c3e9118eeef56221cd20c4e461f2d;hb=HEAD -- Antonio Ospite http://ao2.it A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140509182601.9e4fb1d3efc5499cb16ea...@ao2.it
Bug#619236: debian PS3 installation kboot.conf needed
Op maandag 3 maart 2014 10:38:12 schreef Antonio Ospite: kboot-utils is in Debian[1] already, all that is missing is to find a way to tell the installer: if this system is a PS3, then install kboot-utils Can anyone suggest where this kind of logic can be added in d-i? I didn't manage to allocate enough time to look deeper into that. If the PS3 needs some special partitioning (it's been a while since I upgraded my PS3 to something that can't run Linux anymore, so I don't remember) then I would suggest a partman module. If not, I guess finish-install is the best place to do it. -- This end should point toward the ground if you want to go to space. If it starts pointing toward space you are having a bad problem and you will not go to space today. -- http://xkcd.com/1133/
Bug#619236: debian PS3 installation kboot.conf needed
Hi Cyril, On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 22:21:28 +0100 Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org wrote: Adding -powerpc to the loop. Initial bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619236 Geoff Levand ge...@infradead.org (2013-09-04): We still have a need for the kboot-utils package in debian. Recent daily builds of D-I work fine on PS3, but the installed system still cannot boot due to lack of a kboot.conf file for the PS3's native bootloader (petitboot). Is anyone working on getting better PS3 support? kboot-utils is in Debian[1] already, all that is missing is to find a way to tell the installer: if this system is a PS3, then install kboot-utils Can anyone suggest where this kind of logic can be added in d-i? I didn't manage to allocate enough time to look deeper into that. Thanks, Antonio [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/k/kboot-utils.html -- Antonio Ospite http://ao2.it A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140303103812.39299da3188c3358bdd44...@ao2.it
Bug#619236: debian PS3 installation kboot.conf needed
Adding -powerpc to the loop. Initial bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619236 Geoff Levand ge...@infradead.org (2013-09-04): We still have a need for the kboot-utils package in debian. Recent daily builds of D-I work fine on PS3, but the installed system still cannot boot due to lack of a kboot.conf file for the PS3's native bootloader (petitboot). Is anyone working on getting better PS3 support? Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#619236: debian PS3 installation kboot.conf needed
We still have a need for the kboot-utils package in debian. Recent daily builds of D-I work fine on PS3, but the installed system still cannot boot due to lack of a kboot.conf file for the PS3's native bootloader (petitboot). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1378328476.23710.59.camel@smoke
