Hi Chris, On Fri, 2018-05-25 at 15:38 -0400, Chris Ross wrote: > Okay. Got debootstrap to install onto my ZFS filesystems. After > chroot'ing, and installing various packages (including klibc-utils > which I had to build from source, still don't know why) I have all of > the zfs packages installed. Installed grub2, but seem to be unable to > get it to install onto the zfs disk(s): > > root@t5120:/var/tmp# grub-install /dev/sda > Installing for sparc64-ieee1275 platform. > grub-install: warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot > Partition; embedding won't be possible. > grub-install: error: filesystem `zfs' doesn't support blocklists. > root@t5120:/var/tmp# > > Googling'ing around finds lots of i386-pc vs x86_64-efi comments, > where the latter works and the former comtains with an error as I see > above. But, I don't know that I should be seeing similar > issues. For that matter, I don't have a GPT partition, I have > sun. Am I simply missing the right command-line arguments to grub- > install, or is something else wrong?
And did you create a BIOS boot partition? ;-) https://github.com/esnowberg/grub2-sparc/wiki Thanks, -- Frans van Berckel Media Engineer / Linux Master LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fransvberckel/
