On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 02:11:33PM +0300, Meelis Roos wrote: > > I agree that this is a problem, there is actually a technical reason > > for that which is the fact that the bootloader (or was it the > > firmware?) is choking on the size of the installer image. > > > > I did create some images for testing: > > > > > https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/netboot/ > > Will try, thanks! There was discussion on the netboot images somewhere on the debian-sparc mailing list, forgot where. > > > * Installer still tells ext4 is unsupported for silo, that should not be > > > a problem for years now? > > Actually, I may have hit a problem with silo - silos is not fining any > files, no /etc/silo.conf, no /boon/vmlinuz or any other file. Yeah, I usually create a separate /boot partition with 1 GiB to avoid issues with SILO. > Comparing filesystem features - the news fs has 64bit and metadata_csum > features that my working ext4 filesystems do not have. Will make more > test to see if these are related. > > > SILO is being phased out and replaced with GRUB anyway. The reason why > > we're still defaulting to SILO and not GRUB is because not all patches > > by Eric Snowberg have been merged upstream yet and are hence part of > > the package. > > > > See: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=854568 > > Should it work on any sparc64? Currently all sun4v systems are officially supported. sun4u may work as well, but are not officially supported. I think there were plans to work on sun4u support in the future. See: https://github.com/esnowberg/grub2-sparc/wiki Here are grub2 Debian packages with Eric's sparc64 patches integrated: > http://snapshot.debian.org/package/grub2/2.02%7Ebeta3-5%2Bsparc64/ Several users have reported success. > > > So it seems the installer does not have relevant PGP key for this repo. > > > > > > Am I using wrong repo? Should I add some PGP key manually? Or is the > > > March installer out of date with respect to current PGP keys after > > > stretch was released? > > > > This was an issue in debian-cd and has been fixed: > > > > > https://.debian.org/plugins/scmgit/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=debian-cd/debian-cd.git;a=commit;h=b6c7df147ab61ae42d97610b78e8480cb8b81e00 > > No actual hostname int he URL? Oops. No idea how I managed to do that. Here's the full URL: > https://alioth.debian.org/plugins/scmgit/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=debian-cd/debian-cd.git;a=summary Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxx `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
