On Mon, 23 Jan 2017, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > So installation was completed ok and the beast rebooted but doesn't boot > > (see > > below the transcript from the screen). May be the reason is my obnoxious (I > > guess I like that word that much to use twice) partitioning
> > 2 drives partitioned (RAID part + swap part) -> MD RAID1 -> LVM -> / (ext3) > > So may be SILO just can't find/boot from such an abomination and I should > > have > > created a small boot partition for it first? > Exactly. As long as you're using SILO, your boot partition should be on a > plain > and simple ext3 partition to avoid any issues. > You can try to install grub2 from the "unreleased" repository manually during > the installation by opening a shell from the debian-installer, chrooting into > /target, running "apt update && apt install grub2". But I haven't tested this > _at all_, so I can't tell if this works or not. > However, any tests with the +sparc64 grub2 version from "unreleased" are > highly > appreciated and welcome on the list. since I might end up just redoing the whole installation (to repartition more or less sanely), I will give this one a shot first and report back. Thanks! -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Center for Open Neuroscience http://centerforopenneuroscience.org Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik
