I'm working in a patch to make the install process better. I ĺl send it soon, once some license issues are resolved.
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 01:00 +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote: > Hello list, > > Many months after my last try, I've given GRUB2 a go on my G4-based Apple > laptop. > > For this, I used Debian's 1st of December snapshot packaged to experimental. > > Thanks to daChaac, the IRC hero once again ;) the executive summary changed > from "frustrating failure" to "works with quite a few quirks". > > - grub-install generated an incorrect device.map. I've discussed this here > before: my OpenFirmware calls my hard disk "hd", not "hd0", but > grub-mkdevicemap will insist in adding the number. I corrected that > manually. grub-mkconfig will not use that in the future but use ofpathname instead. > - GRUB2 will load correctly and will display a menu, but will fail to load > Linux, giving a fun error "initrd: command not found". Some modules > needed by my grub.cfg are missing: _linux, linux, elf and search. > > Loading linux.mod was challenging. `insmod linux` would result in a "file > not found" error. I have two partitions that matter when booting: > hd,2 is the Apple_bootstrap hfs partition, and holds all my grub stuff. > hd,3 is my Debian partition, and holds /usr/lib/grub. > > daChaac helped me finding the deps for linux.mod, and loading them > sequentially made the module load: > > grub> insmod elf > grub> insmod (hd,3)/usr/lib/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/_linux.mod > grub> insmod (hd,3)/usr/lib/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/linux.mod > > This gets linux loaded, and things start to be smoother. > > However, going back to the menu and trying to boot fails with "you need > to load your kernel first". Damn. > > Right, my menu entry includes a search command, which isn't loaded > > grub> insmod search > > But this still fails miseraby. > > On the command-line, I copied the "search --fs-uuid --set" line from my > grub.cfg, and > 1) it printed "no such device" and errored out ($?=12, > GRUB_ERR_UNKNOWN_DEVICE) > 2) set my root variable to (second-boot). > > Our guess is that this second-boot device has the same uuid as hd or hd,3 > and that makes search fail or whatever. > > if I do "ls", I get hd + its partitions, ide0, ide1, first-boot and > second-boot. `ls (first-boot)` gives: > Device first-boot: partition table > and `ls (first-boot)/` gives the "unknown filesystem" error. > > Finally, if I get rid of the search command and change my root device to > simply > /dev/hda3, linux is able to boot and I remain happy. > > So, in short, a few problems: > > - grub-mkdevicemap insists on calling my drive by another name (hd0 vs hd) > - what's going on with linux.mod loading? I won't rule out a hfs fs bug, > and I'll format to find out, but it could be a hfs.mod bug too. Some > modules load, some others don't. that's strange, i did my tests with a FAT partition so I can't tell at the moment. > - why wasn't search.mod loaded? I think the search module isn't working in powerrPC, i have to look better at it. > - what to do about second-boot confusing search? > > Ah, also, my menu appears as white on red colours, but this is so minor at > this point I was not even going to mention it. :) > > Hopefully some OF expert can have a look at some of this. > > Thanks, > Jordi > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel -- Best Regards, Manoel Abranches <mrab...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> IBM Linux Technology Center Brazil _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
