Bug#463765: debian-installer: Installer offers to install grub bootloader on PowerPC. Why?

2008-02-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 02:51:08PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 03 February 2008, Robert Millan wrote: I'm not familiar with this part; could it be that we just need to adjust XB-Installer-Menu-Item in yaboot-installer ? From installer/doc/devel/menu-item-numbers.txt: 7000 apt-setup

Bug#463765: debian-installer: Installer offers to install grub bootloader on PowerPC. Why?

2008-02-04 Thread Otavio Salvador
Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please post patches (including changelog entry) to the list before committing. Here's a patch based on your advice. Unfortunately I can't test it, because my Efika died. Hopefully someone else can. Please, feel free to commit it if nobody points

Bug#463765: debian-installer: Installer offers to install grub bootloader on PowerPC. Why?

2008-02-04 Thread Frans Pop
tags 463765 + pending thanks On Monday 04 February 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please post patches (including changelog entry) to the list before committing. Here's a patch based on your advice. Unfortunately I can't test it, because my Efika

Bug#463765: debian-installer: Installer offers to install grub bootloader on PowerPC. Why?

2008-02-03 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 463765 grub-installer 1.26 severity 463765 serious thanks On Sunday 03 February 2008, Rick Thomas wrote: It was a nominal installation until it came time to write a boot loader. It presented me with a top-level installer menu, with Install GRUB boot loader hilighted. On Sunday 03

Bug#463765: debian-installer: Installer offers to install grub bootloader on PowerPC. Why?

2008-02-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 11:55:23AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Robert: I guess this must be because of your changes in version 1.26? It's possibly OK to offer grub2 as an option for powerpc, but I doubt it should be the default choice at this point. Also, if only some subarchitectures are

Bug#463765: debian-installer: Installer offers to install grub bootloader on PowerPC. Why?

2008-02-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 11:55:23AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 03 February 2008, Rick Thomas wrote: It may have *meant* GRUB2, but what it *said* was GRUB. In any case, it doesn't work, and presents an impediment to an otherwise nominal installation process. GRUB Legacy and GRUB 2

Bug#463765: debian-installer: Installer offers to install grub bootloader on PowerPC. Why?

2008-02-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 03 February 2008, Robert Millan wrote: I'm not familiar with this part; could it be that we just need to adjust XB-Installer-Menu-Item in yaboot-installer ? From installer/doc/devel/menu-item-numbers.txt: 7000 apt-setup pkgsel 7300 palo-installer (hppa) grub-installer

Bug#463765: debian-installer: Installer offers to install grub bootloader on PowerPC. Why?

2008-02-02 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Using this businesscard install disk: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ Daily build #2 for powerpc, using installer build from sid These images will install the testing version of Debian, currently

Bug#463765: debian-installer: Installer offers to install grub bootloader on PowerPC. Why?

2008-02-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 2, 2008, at 11:39 PM, Nick Schmalenberger wrote: Grub does exist for powerpc, grub2 http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/grub2.html but as that page says it has an unsatisfiable dependency right now for powerpc so its broken. Has there been any progress on this since: