Re: Sid on ultra1 status

[Romain Dolbeau <romain@dolbeau.org>]

2018-08-14 18:11 GMT+02:00 Romain Dolbeau <romain@dolbeau.org>:
> Does it mean that when grub 'search' for the /boot UUID, it gets the
> wrong device entry ? (missing @sd1,0)

There's definitely a bug somewhere, as 'ls' in the grub command line
also generates the errors and hang...

However - when loading, 'grub' sets the $root variable to something
similar, starting with ieee1275 and featuring some escapes.
So if I don't set 'root' at all - grub looks in its own partition, and
everything seems to work fine...

The entry that actually works (minus the root UUID):

#####
menuentry 'SIMPLE Debian GNU/Linux' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu
 --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple' {
        load_video
    echo      'insmod gzio'
        insmod gzio
    echo      'insmod part_sun'
        insmod part_sun
    echo      'insmod ext2'
        insmod ext2
    echo      'set root'
    set root='ieee1275//sbus@1f\,0/SUNW\,fas@e\,8800000/sd@1\,0,sun1'
        echo    'Loading Linux 4.17.0-1-sparc64 ...'
        linux   /vmlinuz-4.17.0-1-sparc64 root=UUID=X-X-X-X-X ro
        echo    'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
        initrd  /initrd.img-4.17.0-1-sparc64
}
#####

So it's the dev name prefixed by ieee1275/, '\' before all ',', and
',sun1' to indicate the partition (no \ on this comma)...

2018-08-14 19:08 GMT+02:00 Gregor Riepl <onitake@gmail.com>:
> I believe this is 'normal', I got the same with two different video adapters.
> (Creator3D and Mach64)

OK, so it's not the source for the messed up 'search' and 'ls', we can suppose.

> I don't think I can help you, but I did have lots of floppy drive problems on
> my system, so I simply unhooked it. Might be that the Linux floppy driver is
> currently broken, or a hardware problem.

There's a floppy slot but no actual drive in there. 'search' has
--no-floppy by default...
Weird that it tries, but that just may be the same bug twice: grub
uses a wrong dev entry?

Cordially,

-- 
Romain Dolbeau