Re: failing debootstrap

[Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>]

On Fri, 27 Jan 2017, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:

>   I am enjoying partial success with installing sparc64 on ultrasparc T5140. used installer cd from last may. interesting
>   glitch is that system when booted doesn't see any partitioning of the drives -- only LVM volume for the / is available
>   this precludes enabling swaps and mounting /boot
>   here is how it looks:

> root@sparky:/tmp# fdisk -l /dev/sd[ab]
> Disk /dev/sda: 136.7 GiB, 146810536448 bytes, 286739329 sectors
> Geometry: 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 17848 cylinders
> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disklabel type: sun

> Device         Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type                  Flags
> /dev/sda1          0 267193079 267193080 127.4G fd Linux raid autodetect      
> /dev/sda2  267193080 269153009   1959930   957M  1 Boot                       
> /dev/sda3          0 286728119 286728120 136.7G  5 Whole disk                 
> /dev/sda4  269153010 286728119  17575110   8.4G 82 Linux swap                 
> >...<
> root@sparky:/tmp# ls -ld /dev/sd*
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8,  0 Jan 26 09:28 /dev/sda
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 Jan 26 09:28 /dev/sdb

> any clues how to mitigate or what is possibly wrong?

any ideas on how to mitigate this problem would be most welcome!

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