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
