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  • New HFS test image for 32-bit PowerPC

    From John Paul Adrian Glaubitz@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 11 15:30:02 2021
    Hi!

    Here is a new test image [1] which is supposed to test the proper partitioning of the HFS boot partition and mounting it to /boot/grub.

    Note: This image will *not* install GRUB yet properly. The purpose of this image
    is just to test whether the changes I made to the package partman-auto and
    the new packages hfsprogs-udeb and partman-hfs work correctly.

    If everything works as intended, the partitioning program should automatically create and format a GRUB boot partition and mount it to /boot/grub. If that's the case, I can commit the changes to partman-auto and submit the new partman-hfs
    package to unstable.

    After that, I can work on the necessary changes to the grub-installer package which
    conclude the changes necessary to fix the GRUB installation on Apple PowerMac.

    Adrian

    [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/tests/hfstest-20210411/

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  • From John Paul Adrian Glaubitz@21:1/5 to John Paul Adrian Glaubitz on Sun Apr 11 19:50:02 2021
    Hi!

    On 4/11/21 3:27 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
    If everything works as intended, the partitioning program should automatically
    create and format a GRUB boot partition and mount it to /boot/grub. If that's the case, I can commit the changes to partman-auto and submit the new partman-hfs
    package to unstable.

    I had to rebuild the image because I used the wrong partman-auto [1], but with that
    images, the /boot/grub partition is indeed created as intended.

    There is an empty question dialog that just needs to be answered with "No", but I think
    that's a bug in partman-hfs I need to fix. Should be trivial.

    I will commit the changes to partman-auto now and then have a look at grub-installer.

    Adrian

    [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/tests/hfstest-20210411-2/

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