Having done the complete install (including the workaround steps) yesterday,
and not wanting to spend the time to do it all again, I booted into rescue mode
and executes a shell in the /target system.
I had to manually mount /boot/grub from /dev/sa2 because the rescue mode didn't
do it automatically.
Then to get the information Adrian wanted, I executed the following script
# df -TP
Filesystem Type 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/kmac/root ext4 19092136 1156780 16942488 7% /
devtmpfs devtmpfs 1881600 0 1881600 0% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 406656 1664 404992 1% /run
/dev/sda3 ext2 242093 64566 165028 29% /boot
/dev/sda2 hfs 124990 6510 118480 6% /boot/grub
# ofpathname /dev/sda2
/ht@0,f2000000/pci@5/k2-sata-root@c/@-1/@0:2
# nvram --print-config=boot-device
/ht@0,f2000000/pci@5/k2-sata-root@c/@-1/@0:2,\grub
# grub-install --macppc-directory=/boot/grub
Installing for powerpc-ieee1275 platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
# export boot_device=$(nvram --print-config=boot-device)
#nvsetenv boot-device ${boot_device%%\\\\BootX}\\grub
# nvram --print-config=boot-device
/ht@0,f2000000/pci@5/k2-sata-root@c/@-1/@0:2,\grub
# ls -l /boot/grub
total 88
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3 Feb 6 15:46 System
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3 Feb 6 15:46 fonts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82760 Feb 7 15:30 grub
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 6018 Feb 6 15:46 grub.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1024 Feb 6 15:46 grubenv
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 6 15:46 mach_kernel
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 217 Feb 7 15:30 powerpc-ieee1275
Still, when I rebooted without the installer CD, I got the folder icon with
blinking question mark.
Hope it helps!
Rick
