On 4/16/20 11:18 PM, Michael Cree wrote:
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 01:03:49AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Just running a quick install test of the 2020-04-16 ppc64 installer on a G5 and I select "no" for the EFI path grub option which then shows me : [!!] Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk Unable to install GRUB in dummy Executing 'grub-install dummy' failed. This is a fatal error. Followed by : [!!] Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk Installation step failed An installation step failed. You can try to run the failing item again from the menu, or skip it and choose something else. The failing step is: Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk There seems to be a problem in line 812 of the of pathname script : C_nix$ cat ofpathname.log 811 if [[ -e /proc/device-tree$OF_PATH/device_type ]]; then 812 devtype=`$CAT /proc/device-tree$OF_PATH/device_type`; 813 if [[ $devtype = "fcp" || $devtype = "scsi-fcp" ]]; then 814 fc="fibre-channel"; 815 fi 816 fi 817 818 if [[ $fc = "usb" ]]; then 819 local hub_no storage_no disk_no 820 Wherein we see : $ /sbin/ofpathname /dev/sda3/sbin/ofpathname: line 812: warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in input
/ht@0,f2000000/pci@9/k2-sata-root@c/scsi@0/sd@0,0 I took a look into /proc/device-tree/ etc etc and also did add the installer syslog to a tarball. See attached. -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken GreyBeard and suspenders optional
debian-10.0-ppc64-NETINST-1_2020-04-16_stuff.tar.xz
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