Re: NEW netinst 2022-03-28 test images
On 3/28/22 18:00, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi!
On 3/28/22 22:58, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Works like a charm!
Good to hear!
Indeed. I am still unsure how I landed in this spot but it all started
with the dreaded nvram --update-config boot-device="" step. That gave
me a machine that simply would not boot however the grub therein was
from somewhere a year ago or so. Or more.
If you're brave enough you can help verify that the G5 will still boot
with the "boot-device" variable in NVRAM set to NULL:
# nvram --update-config boot-device=""
May as well do that today also. I am messing around with a few sparc
netra machines and trying to get network boot working. So I will reply
to the maillist with the results of the nvram setting change.
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3) dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4096 count=1048576
4) dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=4096 count=1048576
5) power off the machine cold
6) wait 60 seconds and then boot the installer
That resulted in the partition stage simply flowing naturally along
with blank disks for sda and sdb.
Hmm, I have a hard time believing that it's related to that.
Totally unrelated. I just did that to ensure that the installer would
only detect two blank disks. It likely makes no difference at all.
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Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken
GreyBeard and suspenders optional
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