Re: Grub2 with sparc64 patches

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

On 01/23/2017 06:09 PM, louis ayotte wrote:
> # grub-install --boot-directory=/boot /dev/sdb
> Installing for sparc64-ieee1275 platform.
> grub-install: warning: Embedding is not possible.  GRUB can only be
> installed in this setup by using blocklists.  However, blocklists are
> UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged..
> grub-install: error: will not proceed with blocklists.

This looks like your /boot partition is either too small or uses an unsupported
filesystem. Could you print out your partition table with parted?

E.g.:

root@deb4g:~# parted /dev/vdiska print
Model: Unknown (unknown)
Disk /dev/vdiska: 161GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End     Size   File system  Name  Flags
 1      1049kB  1000MB  999MB  ext3               boot, esp
 2      1001MB  161GB   160GB  ext4

root@deb4g:~#

Thanks,
Adrian

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