Otherwise the installation will fail, and the system will be left in an
unbootable state.
On ppc64le, the boot process shows:
Welcome to GRUB!
error: ../../grub-core/kern/dl.c:380:symbol `grub_disk_get_size' not
found.
Entering rescue mode...
grub rescue>
Signed-off-by: Ismael Luceno <iluc...@suse.de>
---
grub-core/osdep/unix/platform.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
diff --git a/grub-core/osdep/unix/platform.c b/grub-core/osdep/unix/platform.c
index a5bf064b7cf5..fd23176e58a0 100644
--- a/grub-core/osdep/unix/platform.c
+++ b/grub-core/osdep/unix/platform.c
@@ -192,12 +192,30 @@ grub_install_register_efi (grub_device_t efidir_grub_dev,
return ret;
}
+static void
+linux_ensure_nvram (void)
+{
+ int fd;
+#ifndef __linux__
+ return 0;
+#endif
+ if (linux_kmod_load("nvram"))
+ grub_util_error (_("%s: kernel module not found"), "nvram");
+ fd = open ("/dev/nvram", O_RDWR);
+ if (fd == -1)
+ grub_util_error ("/dev/nvram: %s", strerror(errno));
+ close (fd);
+}
+
void
grub_install_register_ieee1275 (int is_prep, const char *install_device,
int partno, const char *relpath)
{
char *boot_device;
+ /* On Linux, ensure nvram is available and functional. */
+ linux_ensure_nvram ();
+
if (grub_util_exec_redirect_null ((const char * []){ "ofpathname",
"--version", NULL }))
{
/* TRANSLATORS: This message is shown when required executable `%s'
--
2.37.1
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