On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 01:36:08PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 07:02:15PM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' > Serbinenko wrote: > > Right now grub2 lists only aliased devices. You can either alias your > > disk or directly use: > > Unfortunately I think IBM doesn't generate aliases at all. I have no > idea how to set one (I can't find any documentation on what commands > are available on IBM's openfirmware). > > > prefix=(/p...@800000020000200/pci1014\,0...@1/sas/d...@20000,4)/ > > I have some code on ls issue but the problem is to reliably determine if 2 > > nodes are really the same device > > So that syntax should work? > > I tried doing something like: > ls (/p...@800000020000200/pci1014\,0...@1/sas/d...@20000,4)/ > > It didn't like it. > > ls (/p...@800000020000200/pci1014\,0...@1/sas/d...@20000:4)/ > > didn't work either as far as I recall. > > I will keep trying though.
OK, so after setting the devalias I tried booting grub from the PReP boot
partition I dd'd it to. Now I get:
grub> ls (
Possible devices are:
md0 md1 hd
grub> ls (
Possible devices are:
md0 md1 hd
grub> ls (hd,
Possible partitions are:
Partition hd,msdos1: Unknown filesystem
Partition hd,msdos2: Filesystem type ext2 - Label "ROOT" - Last
modification time
2010-07-23 16:19:51 Friday, UUID 43073e86-01fb-4371-8598-863fbd0beddf
Partition hd,msdos3: Unknown filesystem
Partition hd,msdos4: Filesystem type fat, UUID 4183-cb50
grub> ls (hd,msdos
Possible partitions are:
Partition hd,msdos1: Unknown filesystem
Partition hd,msdos2: Filesystem type ext2 - Label "ROOT" - Last
modification time
2010-07-23 16:19:51 Friday, UUID 43073e86-01fb-4371-8598-863fbd0beddf
Partition hd,msdos3: Unknown filesystem
Partition hd,msdos4: Filesystem type fat, UUID 4183-cb50
grub> ls (hd,msdos
Now we are getting somewhere. So it seems even with a fat12 partition,
the open firmware on the IBM box still won't boot from a file.
Unfortunately on reboot, my devalias is gone. How do I make it remember it?
--
Len Sorensen
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