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Re: grub2 on power6 box.


From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Subject: Re: grub2 on power6 box.
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:27:33 +0300
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On 07/23/2010 11:02 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> So how would one explain to grub-install that it needs part_msdos when
> the partition tables that the md devices are running on are of type msdos?
> How would one make it automatically add the correct prefix (since it
> needs either (hd,msdos#)/boot/grub or (md0)/boot/grub or similar added
> instead of the default)?  And of course finally it would have to dd to
> the target device, rather than just create a file and try to make the
> firmware boot that file.  The boot device also has to be the full disk
> on the IBM, not a disk,partition,file combination.
>   
Normally it should be all autodetected. Could you file a bug report for
this? Could you tell the commands to reproduce it? I have a PPC box but
it has only one disk but a mdraid on partitions should do it.
> But hey, at least it can work with a bit of manual work.
>
> Thanks for the hints everyone.
>
>   


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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko


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