Re: Any progress with grub-installer?
On 1/7/19 4:31 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> I tried to install GRUB using a ELF boot image:
>
> root@debian:~/grub2# grub-install /dev/vdiska
> Installing for sparc64-ieee1275 platform.
> grub-install: error: the size of `/boot/grub/sparc64-ieee1275/boot.img' is not 512.
> root@debian:~/grub2# ls -l /boot/grub/sparc64-ieee1275/boot.img
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 816 Jan 7 18:29 /boot/grub/sparc64-ieee1275/boot.img
> root@debian:~/grub2#
>
> So, the generated ELF image is too big. No idea yet how to address this.
It does seem to work, however. At least with GPT:
GNU GRUB version 2.02+dfsg1-9
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|*Debian GNU/Linux |
| Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux |
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+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Use the ^ and v keys to select which entry is highlighted.
Press enter to boot the selected OS, `e' to edit the commands
before booting or `c' for a command-line.
Now we just need to test this on a machine with a Sun partition table.
Adrian
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