Re: Maturity of GRUB on powerpc/ppc64?

[Frank Scheiner]

On 10/04/2017 10:50 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 10/02/2017 05:04 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> > As a follow-up to [1] but maybe better placed under the subject of 
> > this thread,
> > the promised details for the Grub installation on an Xserve G4 with 
> > Debian Sid.
>
> Thanks. Is there any specify reason why you aren't using grub-install?

Yes - it's a known working method. I know that it worked that way on the 
Power Mac G5, so I first tried it that way on the Xserve G4. That to be 
sure no errors are introduced by another method of installation.

> If I remember correctly, most of the steps you went through above should
> actually be performed by single invocation of grub-install which is what
> debian-installer is doing as well.

I can retry this on the G5 with an installer that has Grub included. 
IIRC that wasn't the case, the last time I installed the G5 in late 
September (with the installer ISO with SHA256 hash: 
46844b4c8da76c3fb18d3d350b1262b9938c8b8ff8a85bd193d76ac7e33b5dc9) - or I 
just didn't notice it.

And I can also try to use grub-install on the Xserve G4 from the already 
installed OS. If there is also a Sid installer image available for 
powerpc I can also do that from the Debian installer.

Cheers,
Frank