grub2 on powerpc

[Otavio Salvador]

Sven Luther <sven.luther at wanadoo.fr> writes:

> On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 06:35:24PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> As you might know, experimental grub2 support has been added to d-i when using
>> the expert mode, but it is only yet available on i386/amd64.
>> 
>> I made this patch to enable grub2 for powerpc as well, but unfortunately I can't
>> test it (no ppc hardware here).  Would anyone like to try it?
>
> Hi Robert.
>
> Today i did a daily-build install on an apple XServe, and i wanted to give
> grub2 a try, but i was not able to find any grub-installer package for
> powerpc. I looked at the BTS, and grub-installer is only built for x86-ish
> arches, and there is no grub2-installer.
>
> What am i missing here ? I thought you enabled powerpc support, and wanted
> testing ? 

Hey Sven,

How are you doing?

GRUB2 support was disabled by now since we're near of Etch
release. You can reenable it and rebuild for testing.

If you want I can send you a source package ready but I think it'll be
trivial for you. Currently we have grub-installer only bult for i386
and amd64 but after etch is release I want to move to grub2 for
default installations and then change the grub-installer archs.

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