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Re: GRUB failed to install on Fujitsu M10-4


From: Eric Snowberg
Subject: Re: GRUB failed to install on Fujitsu M10-4
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2019 10:36:08 -0600

> On Jun 3, 2019, at 7:37 AM, Sonnie Hook <address@hidden> 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. 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'.
> 
> It seemed that there was something wrong with GRUB installation , so I 
> manually executed:
> # chroot /target grub-install  --force-extra-removable --force "/dev/sda”

To debug this, I would recommend removing the —-force above.  Adding this 
option causes all errors to be ignored.

> 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.

as can be seen above.

What does your partition table look like? (parted /dev/sda print)




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