Re: GRUB failed to install on Fujitsu M10-4

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On 6/3/19 4:18 PM, Sonnie Hook wrote:
> You are right. In the past few mails, the messages I pasted were all from 
> rescue mode until I re-installed the whole OS tonight.
> Besides, after bind-mount those directories, those "Unknown device" errors 
> disappeared. Manual installation of GRUB succeeded.
> `grub-ofpathname /dev/sda` output: 
> /address@hidden/address@hidden/address@hidden/address@hidden/address@hidden/address@hidden,0
> And... still can't open boot device :(

The best would be to ask Eric Snowberg from Oracle for advise. He has the most 
insight.

Adrian

> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> 
> 于2019年6月3日周一 下午9:47写道：
> 
>     On 6/3/19 3:37 PM, Sonnie Hook wrote:
>     > When installing Debian SPARC 10.0(2019-05-24) on Fujitsu M10-4, 
> everything
>     > seemed OK except that the GRUB installation reported an EFI warning.
> 
>     Wait, you didn't say that there was an "EFI warning" when you posted this
>     to the debian-sparc mailing list. And there shouldn't be one as the 
> machine
>     uses OpenFirmware plus GPT for the partitions tables.
> 
>     I forced to install GRUB on /dev/sda, finally the installation finished 
> without any error...but failed to boot with "Can't open boot device".
>     >
>     > Then I re-installed the whole OS and before rebooting, I executed a 
> shell and tried to find the real OBP boot path. 
>     > # chroot /target grub-ofpathname /dev/sda
>     > grub-ofpathname: error: failed to get canonical path of 
> `/sys/block/sda'.
> 
>     You need to bind-mount /dev, /proc and /sys into the chroot before
>     that command works:
> 
>     # mount -o bind /dev /target/dev
>     # mount -o bind /proc /target/proc
>     # mount -o bind /sys /target/sys
> 
>     > It seemed that there was something wrong with GRUB installation , so I 
> manually executed:
>     > # chroot /target grub-install  --force-extra-removable --force 
> "/dev/sda"
>     > Installing for sparc64-ieee1275 platform.
>     > /proc/devices: fopen failed: No such file or directory
>     > Unknown device "/dev/sda2": No such device
>     > Unknown device "/dev/sda1": No such device
>     > Unknown device "/dev/sda1": No such device
>     > Unknown device "/dev/sda2": No such device
>     > Unknown device "/dev/sda1": No such device
>     > Unknown device "/dev/sda2": No such device
>     > Unknown device "/dev/sda3": No such device
>     > Unknown device "/dev/sda2": No such device
>     > /proc/devices: fopen failed: No such file or directory
>     > Unknown device "/dev/sda2": No such device
>     > /proc/devices: fopen failed: No such file or directory
>     > Unknown device "/dev/sda2": No such device
>     > /proc/devices: fopen failed: No such file or directory
>     > Unknown device "/dev/sda2": No such device
>     > Installation finished. No error reported.
> 
>     Those above error messages are also a result of the missing bind mounts.
> 
>     Adrian
> 
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