Bug#916864: Extend grub-ofpathname to behaves like yaboot/ofpath on PowerPC system

2019-05-07 Thread Frank Scheiner
Sorry Mathieu, overlooked this message... On 5/3/19 14:04, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 1:15 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: [...] ## Reboot into OF 0 > boot load-size=0 adler32=1 LOAD-SIZE is too small ok 0 > ``` You actually don't need to prove it doesn't

Bug#916864: Extend grub-ofpathname to behaves like yaboot/ofpath on PowerPC system

2019-05-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 5/3/19 2:04 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> root@redpanda:~# dpkg -L grub-common |grep ofpath >> root@redpanda:~# dpkg -L grub2-common |grep ofpath >> root@redpanda:~# > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=916830 This should also include ppc64 and ppc64el which also boot with

Bug#916864: Extend grub-ofpathname to behaves like yaboot/ofpath on PowerPC system

2019-05-03 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 1:15 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hi! > > On 5/3/19 10:53 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote: > >> Could you reply to the Debian bug number so that I can get a clean > >> view of the issue. > > > > Sure. > > > >> Then simply please post the output of: > >> > >> (1)

Bug#916864: Extend grub-ofpathname to behaves like yaboot/ofpath on PowerPC system

2019-05-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! On 5/3/19 10:53 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote: >> Could you reply to the Debian bug number so that I can get a clean >> view of the issue. > > Sure. > >> Then simply please post the output of: >> >> (1) yaboot/ofpath (the one that works) > > `` > root@powermac-g5:~# ofpath /dev/sda2 >

Bug#916864: Extend grub-ofpathname to behaves like yaboot/ofpath on PowerPC system

2019-05-03 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Mathieu, On 5/3/19 10:02, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: On which machine did this work? I wrote earlier today that the modified grub-ofpathname does not work on a 11,2 type G5, so the patch seems to be not generic enough. Sorry about that. I must say there are way too many emails to read. Ok,

Bug#916864: Extend grub-ofpathname to behaves like yaboot/ofpath on PowerPC system

2019-05-03 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Frank, On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 9:27 AM Frank Scheiner wrote: > On 5/3/19 08:19, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > Dear grub developers, > > > > We are looking to extend grub-ofpathname so that it also handles > > PowerPC system such as PowerMac with a limited OpenFirmware > > implementation[1]. In