Re: updaing to grub on sparc64
On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 12:06:29PM -0400, Chris Ross wrote:
> Is it any harder than just
> "apt install grub-ieee1275", then "grub-install /dev/sdd"? And for a sun
> disk with /boot on sdd1 and / on sdd2, should I target grub-install to
> sdd1 or sdd2 (assuming that /dev/sdd, despite my mention above, is likely to
> not work on sparc)? And which partition should I point OBP to load?
Sorry for the noise, I should've just finished the first experiements first.
installing grub-common and grub-ieee1275 allowed me to run grub-install, but
each of "grub-install /dev/sdd" and "grub-install /dev/sdd1" yield approximately
the same result:
root@t5120:/# grub-install /dev/sdd1
Installing for sparc64-ieee1275 platform.
grub-install: warning: Discarding improperly nested partition (hostdisk//dev/sdd,sun1,sun2).
grub-install: warning: Discarding improperly nested partition (hostdisk//dev/sdd,sun1,sun4).
grub-install: warning: Discarding improperly nested partition (hostdisk//dev/sdd,sun1,sun5).
grub-install: error: hostdisk//dev/sdd appears to contain a sun partition map which isn't known to reserve space for DOS-style boot. Installing GRUB there could result in FILESYSTEM DESTRUCTION if valuable data is overwritten by grub-setup (--skip-fs-probe disables this check, use at your own risk).
root@t5120:/#
(the first three warnings occur when I select /dev/sdd1, and not when I select
/dev/sdd, but otherwise the same output)
This is a sun label disk, partitioned like so:
Partition Table: sun
Number Start End Size File system Flags
1 0.00B 98.7MB 98.7MB ext2 boot
2 98.7MB 30.1GB 30.0GB ext4
4 30.1GB 46.5GB 16.5GB linux-swap(v1)
5 46.5GB 147GB 100GB ext4
(parted)
sdd1 is /boot, 2 is /, 5 is /home.
>From the earlier conversation, I know it was tested using grub with sun labeled
disks. Does there have to be special magic space at the front to make it work?
Thanks.
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