Re: grub-installer: info: Calling 'apt-install grub-ieee1275' failed
On 1/9/21 1:12 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 1/9/21 1:53 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>
>> I think this is pretty much well known but I will report it here
>> regardless. From the latest sparc64 installer images I eventually
>> see grub-ieee1275 fails.
>> (...)
>> Jan 4 19:00:02 in-target: Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports
>> sid/main sparc64 grub2-common sparc64 2.04-11 [719 kB]
>> Jan 4 19:00:04 in-target: Err:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports
>> sid/main sparc64 grub-ieee1275-bin sparc64 2.04-11
>> Jan 4 19:00:04 in-target: 503 Backend unavailable, connection
>> timeout [IP: 2a04:4e42:58::644 80]
>> Jan 4 19:00:04 in-target: Get:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports
>> sid/main sparc64 grub-ieee1275 sparc64 2.04-11 [542 kB]
>> Jan 4 19:00:05 in-target: Fetched 1261 kB in 4s (316 kB/s)
>> Jan 4 19:00:05 in-target: E
>> Jan 4 19:00:05 in-target: :
>> Jan 4 19:00:05 in-target: Failed to fetch
>> http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-sparc64/main/g/grub2/grub-ieee1275-bin_2.04-11_sparc64.deb
>> 503 Backend unavailable, connection timeout [IP: 2a04:4e42:58::644 80]
>> Jan 4 19:00:05 in-target:
>> Jan 4 19:00:05 in-target: E
>> Jan 4 19:00:05 in-target: :
>> Jan 4 19:00:05 in-target: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run
>> apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
>> Jan 4 19:00:05 in-target:
>> Jan 4 19:00:05 grub-installer: info: Calling 'apt-install
>> grub-ieee1275' failed
>
> I have no clue which image you used and I'm not sure what you did to end up in a situation
> where the installer would try to download the grub2 packages over the net which are actually
> on the installation ISO, so they don't have to be downloaded.
>
I used the sparc64 netinst from
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2021-01-03/ and did
veridy the SHA512 hash.
> I also just verified that by installing the latest sparc64 ISO inside an LDOM in offline mode
> and grub2 was installed without any issues with no package mirror being set up.
>
May be possibly because I always use the "expert mode" option in the
installer. That allows me to setup the network without DHCP.
I will try again with the default trivial installer.
Dennis
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