diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 0994c75c..d45413ef 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ debian-cd (3.1.24) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * Switch bootloader from elilo to grub-efi-ia64 on ia64
   * Switch bootloader from yaboot to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc
   * Switch bootloader from yaboot to grub-ieee1275 on ppc64
+  * Switch bootloader from silo to grub-ieee1275 on sparc
 
  -- Holger Levsen <holger@debian.org>  Wed, 20 Feb 2019 14:12:16 +0100
 
diff --git a/tools/boot/buster/boot-sparc b/tools/boot/buster/boot-sparc
index 82285256..9cc046a5 100755
--- a/tools/boot/buster/boot-sparc
+++ b/tools/boot/buster/boot-sparc
@@ -1,93 +1,86 @@
-#!/bin/bash -e
-# 
-# boot-sparc
+#!/bin/bash
 #
-# Do install stuff for sparc, including making first CD bootable
+# Do install stuff for sparc, including making bootable CDs
+# Works with debian-installer
+#
+# $1 is the CD number
+# $2 is the temporary CD build dir
 
 . $BASEDIR/tools/boot/$DI_CODENAME/common.sh
 
 set -e
+#set -x
 
 N=$1
 CDDIR=$2
+INSTALLDIR=$CDDIR/install
+
+# Common mkisofs options when creating CDs
+add_mkisofs_opt $CDDIR/../$N.mkisofs_opts "-J -joliet-long"
+add_mkisofs_opt $CDDIR/../$N.mkisofs_opts "-cache-inodes"
+add_mkisofs_opt $CDDIR/../$N.mkisofs_opts "-l"
+
+# mkisofs options specific to sparc
+add_mkisofs_opt $CDDIR/../$N.mkisofs_opts "-G $CDDIR/../CD1/cdboot.img"
+add_mkisofs_opt $CDDIR/../$N.mkisofs_opts "-B '...'"
+add_mkisofs_opt $CDDIR/../$N.mkisofs_opts "--grub2-sparc-core /boot/grub/core.img"
 
 # Exit if this is not CD#1/DVD#1
 if [ $N != "1" ]; then
-    add_mkisofs_opt $CDDIR/../$N.mkisofs_opts "-J -joliet-long"
-    add_mkisofs_opt $CDDIR/../$N.mkisofs_opts "-cache-inodes"
-    add_mkisofs_opt $CDDIR/../$N.mkisofs_opts "-l"
     exit 0
 fi
 
 if [ "$DI_WWW_HOME" = "default" ]; then
-    DI_WWW_HOME="https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/sparc/daily/cdrom/"
+    DI_WWW_HOME="https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/sparc/daily"
     try_di_image_cache
 else
     DI_WWW_HOME=$(echo $DI_WWW_HOME | sed "s,%ARCH%,$ARCH,")
 fi
 
-add_mkisofs_opt $CDDIR/../$N.mkisofs_opts "-G boot1/boot/isofs.b -B ..."
-add_mkisofs_opt $CDDIR/../$N.mkisofs_dirs "boot1"
-
-inst=boot1
+case "$MKISOFS" in
+    *xorriso*)
+        XORRISO_VER=$(xorriso_version)
+        ;;
+    *)
+	echo "ERROR: debian-cd now depends on xorriso for making sparc bootable CDs."
+	exit 1;
+	;;
+esac
 
 cd $CDDIR/..
 
-# Setup directories
-mkdir -p $inst/boot
+BOOT_IMAGES="cdrom/initrd.gz cdrom/vmlinux cdrom/debian-cd_info.tar.gz"
 
-silo_deb=$(find_pkg_file silo)
-if [ -z "$silo_deb" ]; then
-       echo "ERROR: silo package is required"
-       exit 1
-fi 
-# put the relevant parts of SILO boot loader
-(dpkg --fsys-tarfile $MIRROR/$silo_deb | \
-	tar xf - -C $inst/ ./boot/{isofs,second}.b)
+# Download boot images.
+for image in $BOOT_IMAGES; do
+    if [ ! -e "$image" ]; then
+        dir=$(dirname $image)
+        mkdir -p $dir
+        if [ -n "$LOCAL"  -a -f "${LOCALDEBS:-$MIRROR}/dists/$DI_DIST/local/installer-$ARCH/current/images/$image" ]; then
+            cp "${LOCALDEBS:-$MIRROR}/dists/$DI_DIST/local/installer-$ARCH/current/images/$image" "$image"
+        elif [ ! "$DI_WWW_HOME" ];then
+            if [ ! "$DI_DIR" ];then
+                DI_DIR="$MIRROR/dists/$DI_DIST/main/installer-$ARCH/current/images"
+            fi
+            cp "$DI_DIR/$image" "$image"
+        else
+            $WGET "$DI_WWW_HOME/$image" -O "$image"
+        fi
+    fi
+done
 
-if [ -n "$ARCHIVE_EXTRACTED_SOURCES" ]; then
-    echo $silo_deb >> $CDDIR/../$N.pkgs_extracted
-    find_pkg_file silo source >> $CDDIR/../$N.pkgs_extracted
-fi
+# Boot setup including config and help files comes from d-i.
+mkdir -pv $PWD/CD$N
+cat cdrom/debian-cd_info.tar.gz | (cd CD$N/; tar zx)
 
-# Some custom etc files
-cp -f -p $BASEDIR/data/${CODENAME}/sparc/silo.conf $inst/boot/
-if [ -n "$KERNEL_PARAMS" ]; then
-	# Add KERNEL_PARAMS to any existing append line
-	sed -i "/^[[:space:]]*append=\"/ s|append=\"|append=\"$KERNEL_PARAMS |" \
-		$inst/boot/silo.conf
-	# If there is no default append= line, add it
-	if ! grep -q "^append=" $inst/boot/silo.conf; then
-		sed -i "/^default=/ a\append=\"$KERNEL_PARAMS\"" \
-			$inst/boot/silo.conf
-	fi
-fi
-cat $BASEDIR/data/${CODENAME}/sparc/debian.txt \
- | sed "s/\${MEDIA_TYPE}/CDROM/" \
- | sed "s/\${DEBIAN_VERSION}/${CODENAME}/g" \
- | sed "s/\${BUILD_DATE}/${BUILD_DATE}/g" \
- > $inst/boot/debian.txt
-cp $BASEDIR/data/${CODENAME}/sparc/notsupported.txt $inst/boot/
+# Prepend cdboot.img with 512 zero bytes as block 0 contains
+# the SUN disk label and would get overwritten by xorriso
+dd if=/dev/zero of=$CDDIR/../CD1/cdboot.img bs=512 count=1
+dd if=$CDDIR/../CD1/boot/grub/sparc64-ieee1275/cdboot.img of=$CDDIR/../CD1/cdboot.img bs=512 count=1 oflag=append conv=notrunc
 
-# Sparc64 kernel is so big, that uncompressing it corrupts SILO memory, so
-# uncompress it before hand.
+# Copy kernel and initrd
+mkdir -p $INSTALLDIR
+cp -lf cdrom/vmlinux $INSTALLDIR/
+cp -lf cdrom/initrd.gz $INSTALLDIR/
 
-if [ ! "$DI_WWW_HOME" ];then
-	if [ ! "$DI_DIR" ];then
-	   DI_DIR="$MIRROR/dists/$DI_DIST/main/installer-$ARCH/current/images/cdrom"
-	fi
-else
-	DI_DIR="cdrom"
-	mkdir "./$DI_DIR"
-	$WGET "$DI_WWW_HOME" -O ./$DI_DIR/di.dir
-	sparc64=$(sed -n 's/.*a href="\(vmlinuz-.*-sparc64\)".*/\1/ip' ./$DI_DIR/di.dir)
-	$WGET "$DI_WWW_HOME/$sparc64" -O ./$DI_DIR/vmlinuz-x-sparc64
-	$WGET "$DI_WWW_HOME/initrd.gz" -O ./$DI_DIR/initrd.gz
-fi
-
-if [ ! -e "$DI_DIR"/initrd.gz ] ; then
-    DI_DIR="$DI_DIR"/2.6
-fi
-cp "$DI_DIR"/initrd.gz "$inst/boot/initrd.gz"
-#cp "$DI_DIR"/vmlinuz-*-sparc32 "$inst/boot/sparc32"
-zcat "$DI_DIR"/vmlinuz-*-sparc64 > "$inst/boot/sparc64"
+exit 0
diff --git a/tools/generate_di+k_list b/tools/generate_di+k_list
index e0ec2382..e30f391e 100755
--- a/tools/generate_di+k_list
+++ b/tools/generate_di+k_list
@@ -235,7 +235,6 @@ grub-efi-arm64-bin
 initramfs-tools
 grub-ieee1275
 busybox
-silo
 libc6-sparcv9b
 libc6-sparcv9
 linux-image-sparc32