Re: Any progress with grub-installer?

[Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org>]

On 1/7/19 3:14 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > On Jan 7, 2019, at 9:07 PM, Frank Scheiner <frank.scheiner@web.de> wrote:
> > > On 1/7/19 16:35, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > > > 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#

I mistakenly went with the expert installer of the latest netinst image 
and saw this :


  ┌┤ [!!] Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk ├┐
  │          Unable to install GRUB in dummy           │
  │ Executing 'grub-install dummy' failed.             │
  │ This is a fatal error.                             │


So I will go with lilo or perhaps start over with the default installer
which doesn't really seem to allow manual ipv4 config but may be more
commonly tested.

Dennis