On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 12:06:29PM -0400, Chris Ross wrote: > Is it any harder than just > "apt install grub-ieee1275", then "grub-install /dev/sdd"? And for a sun > disk with /boot on sdd1 and / on sdd2, should I target grub-install to > sdd1 or sdd2 (assuming that /dev/sdd, despite my mention above, is likely to > not work on sparc)? And which partition should I point OBP to load?
Sorry for the noise, I should've just finished the first experiements first. installing grub-common and grub-ieee1275 allowed me to run grub-install, but each of "grub-install /dev/sdd" and "grub-install /dev/sdd1" yield approximately the same result: root@t5120:/# grub-install /dev/sdd1 Installing for sparc64-ieee1275 platform. grub-install: warning: Discarding improperly nested partition (hostdisk//dev/sdd,sun1,sun2). grub-install: warning: Discarding improperly nested partition (hostdisk//dev/sdd,sun1,sun4). grub-install: warning: Discarding improperly nested partition (hostdisk//dev/sdd,sun1,sun5). grub-install: error: hostdisk//dev/sdd appears to contain a sun partition map which isn't known to reserve space for DOS-style boot. Installing GRUB there could result in FILESYSTEM DESTRUCTION if valuable data is overwritten by grub-setup (--skip-fs-probe disables this check, use at your own risk). root@t5120:/# (the first three warnings occur when I select /dev/sdd1, and not when I select /dev/sdd, but otherwise the same output) This is a sun label disk, partitioned like so: Partition Table: sun Number Start End Size File system Flags 1 0.00B 98.7MB 98.7MB ext2 boot 2 98.7MB 30.1GB 30.0GB ext4 4 30.1GB 46.5GB 16.5GB linux-swap(v1) 5 46.5GB 147GB 100GB ext4 (parted) sdd1 is /boot, 2 is /, 5 is /home. >From the earlier conversation, I know it was tested using grub with sun labeled disks. Does there have to be special magic space at the front to make it work? Thanks.
