Yaboot or Grub #3414
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After the initialization of the RAM Disk in the powerpc guide, the installation of yaboot at the Bootstrap partition is requested. However, during the RAM Disk step, I checked how grub entries were added at the Grub menu and, as expected, it seems Yaboot is not installed in the provided XFCE tarball for ppc64, only Grub. What should I do?. |
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Replies: 25 comments
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Jesus. Sorry for all the trouble you're running into - but at this point I think I am comfortable enough to recommend GRUB as the default (documentation work to follow if it works out here). It should be as simple as Also, I believe you will have to uncomment Please let me know how this goes. |
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I will also transfer this issue to AOSC-Dev/aosc-os-abbs. |
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Where should I install grub? In the "disk" itself as I do in other distributions or (as its Apple Partition Table type) in a specific partition? Sorry, I am a bit new with this as only tried FreeBSD with a successful installation. |
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You shouldn't need to specify a disk with this platform. |
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Then something is wrong in the line. Grub just points me to check the help and usage but I am sure the line is written correctly. |
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Did it tell you anything about what parametre is wrong? |
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No, just to check that. |
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Could you try appending |
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But isn't the first partition of a Apple table intouchable because it's where the partitions are defined? The second one, /dev/sda2 its dedicated to that I think as yaboot was requested to be installed there. But I am not sure. root@lubuntu [ / ] ! grub-install --target=powerpc-ieee1275 --no-vram This is what it says |
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Okay, doesnt matter, was my fault. I just copied your line and worked ;-; |
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I was going to say that you mis-typed |
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Oh yes, jajajajaja. |
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I need to ask other question, can I do it here or should I open other issue as expected? |
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Why don't we open an issue simply titled "PPC64 Testing and Issues" or something along that line so we can assemble a little checklist to get them sorted? Also if you'd like to help, please feel free to join us, either on GitHub or Telegram (if you have it), I can provide all necessary training for packaging and distribution maintenance. |
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Okay, this one is related: since this iMac is using a ATI Radeon video card, radeon.agpmode=-1 set in the bootloader should be preferable but I have no idea if I should add any other config being Grub. |
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Sorry, with this old firefox in the lubuntu live image I can't update the view automatically to see new posts easily. Yes, would be preferable but I think you could do it better to create the desired list. I could add using posts what I am checking at the moment. Away from that, about packaging and maintaining the distribution I would be glad but I would like to ensure a successful installation first. |
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Nope, that should be all you need. |
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So directly I add it to the grub conf. Okay. |
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To |
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Please refer to #2108 for other issues.
Sure thing, hopefully we can get this sorted out, and again, I am very sorry for all the trouble. |
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Okay and thank you for the help.
Yes, I told that to confirm you were not telling me to not adding it. |
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Got it. |
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A good reference being found at https://wiki.adelielinux.org/wiki/Package:GRUB2 |
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We are now using GRUB for Retro distributions. Distributions and documentation updates to come. |
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Jesus. Sorry for all the trouble you're running into - but at this point I think I am comfortable enough to recommend GRUB as the default (documentation work to follow if it works out here). It should be as simple as
grub-install --target=powerpc-ieee1275 --no-nvramandgrub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg.Also, I believe you will have to uncomment
#GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=console.Please let me know how this goes.