On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 07:56:27AM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On 07/22/2010 11:23 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > I am trying to use grub2 to boot an IBM p520 power6 box. I know yaboot > > can do the job, but it doesn't deal with software raid, ext4, LVM or > > anything else useful. > > > > I have managed to get as far as booting to a grub prompt from disk. > > Unfortunately it doesn't appear to be seeing any disks at that point. > > > > The way I got it this far was to create an 8MB (smallest cfdisk would > > make) PReP boot partition, and then run grub-mkimage -n -o /tmp/grub -O > > powerpc-ieee1275 *.mod in the ieee1275 grub directory. I then dd'd > > /tmp/grub to /dev/sda1 (the PReP boot partition). > > > > > You need to add -p "<your /boot/grub in grub notation>". Also avoid the > raid and lvm-related modules you don't need. OFW exposes ghost devices > so assembling raids which involves looking at all devices is slow
I will try that (although I think I did). I can't even get it to do ls on any disk or anything. It really seems to be behaving as if it doesn't detect any disks. -- Len Sorensen _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
