Hi, On 6/1/19 04:52, Sonnie Hook wrote:
I have installed Debian/SPARC port from ISO image of 2019-05-24. At first, I just followed the default "Use entire disk" to partition the whole disk into /dev/sda1 grub-boot /dev/sda2 / /dev/sda3 swap GRUB was installed without any error message. But when boot from prompt: {0} ok boot disk Boot device: /pci@8000/pci@4/pci@0/pci@0/scsi@0/disk@p0,0 File and args:Can't open boot device After googling for quite a long time, I entered rescue mode via booting from cdrom, and re-partitioned the disk into /dev/sda1 grub-boot 30M /dev/sda2 /boot 1G /dev/sda3 / 500G /dev/sda4 swap left
Can this be done from the installer without reinstalling the whole OS?
Still I got the same error. Could someone tell me how I can boot this machine?
The "d-i/grub-installer" can install GRUB on systems that support GPT partitioned drives and systems that don't support GPT partitioned drives, and IIRC uses a subarchitecture string to differentiate between the capabilities of the respective machine. It could be that this doesn't apply to your M10-4 with SPARC64 X/X+ or the resulting partitioning isn't what your machine expects or the path to the boot device wasn't correctly translated. When you are in rescue mode, could you issue `archdetect` on a console in the installer UI and post the resulting string? And could you also issue `partmap <DISK>` (with <DISK> being your actual disk device, e.g. /dev/sda) and post the result? This should show if GPT partitioning was used or not. And as this machine would be the first SPARC64 driven machine I know of that runs Debian GNU/Linux, could you please also post your `dmesg` output or your syslog from an installer boot? Depending on how GRUB was installed, it could also work to just issue `boot disk` from the OBP if "disk" is a device alias pointing to your actual install disk - if non-GPT partitioning was used. I don't know what needs to be added to boot when GPT partitioning was used though. According to [1] and your partitioning scheme, maybe add `,0` at the end, i.e. `boot disk,0`. [1]: https://github.com/esnowberg/grub2-sparc/wiki#installation-instructions-for-sparc-t4-and-above Cheers, Frank
