[gentoo-powerpc] Re: osuosl openstack power8 powerpc64le for gentoo

[Kevin Zhao]

Hi Anthony ,
      Thanks for your updating!
      We are dedicating to make grub working at Gentoo for ppc64le.
Now the Grub can be compiled , but the grub command such as
"grub-config" can not work properly.
      With below link , you can get a livecd of gentoo ppc64le here.We
use the grub binaries available that shipped from Redhat 7.1.
      You can use virt-install or virsh to load the iso.  you can
login with  :  root , password is admin.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2k84p6709AyNjBOX1dfM3RfZU0/view?usp=sharing
       Pls feel free to let me know if you have any question~ Thanks

2016-01-29 7:30 GMT+08:00 Anthony G. Basile <blueness@g.o>:
> Hi everyone,
>
> A couple of weeks ago osuosl gave me access to an openstack account for
> 6 powerpc64le instances.  The system was buggy (and may still be) and it
> took me a while to get used to it, but I've got a gentoo volume ready.
> This is based off of an early image by Kevin Zhao which I cleaned up and
> brought into conformity with Gentoo standards.  I'm almost ready to give
> people access to it but, I don't know what bootloader to use.  I know
> grub should work, but gentoo's grub isn't ready for powerpc64le.
>
> Kevin et al, if you guys have patches for grub, it'll speed things up.
> I want to start giving out accounts on our a new gentoo instance!
>
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