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

[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
> <glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de> 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 work, I believe you anyway ;).

Sure, but having the details behind a statement is often more useful for
understanding than just accepting a statement. :-D I often see users
(including me) coming to wrong conclusions because of misunderstanding
of the details. So having that details at hand allows to rethink their
implications.

>>
>> FWIW, where did you install grub-ofpathname from? I don't actually see it
>> in the grub-common package on powerpc/ppc64:
>>
>> root at redpanda:~# dpkg -L grub-common |grep ofpath
>> root at redpanda:~# dpkg -L grub2-common |grep ofpath
>> root at redpanda:~#

I patched the GRUB sources from Debian and created new packages with
sbuild. The process is still not as I would have expected it from the
documentation, but it worked good enough to create the needed packages.

Cheers,
Frank