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 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.
I am doing a re-install with the "default" installer and I choose the
most trivial config options. Which is to say the partition options were
whatever seems most trivial. Full disk. New partition table. Everything
in one partition. The default seems to be 512MB ext2 bootable /boot and
then a large slice and 1G of swap.
Eventually I see a big red box :
[!!] Configure the package manager
apt configuration problem
An attempt to configure apt to install additional packages from the
media failed.
Here I select "continue" and things seem to move along.
Then, after a little while everything seems to just work neatly.
I guess there is something oddball in the expert level menu option but
we don't really test for that. OKay, this works in the easy mode option.
--
Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken
GreyBeard and suspenders optional
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