Re: Grub, sparc64, and compressed kernels

2018-07-03 Thread Chris Ross
On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 04:43:32PM -0400, Chris Ross wrote: > [- tried to grub-install onto /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2, won't boot, Illegal >Instruction. -] > So, I fear some of this is based on the fact that I'm running grub-install > into raid filesystems that are mounted as a RAID1, but I'm

Re: Grub, sparc64, and compressed kernels

2018-07-03 Thread Chris Ross
Sorry for the chatter on the list, all... On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 04:14:18PM -0400, Chris Ross wrote: > Adrian answered some of this before I asked the above questions: > > t5120# grub-install /dev/sda1 > Installing for sparc64-ieee1275 platform. > grub-install: warning: File

Re: Grub, sparc64, and compressed kernels

2018-07-03 Thread Chris Ross
On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 03:37:24PM -0400, Chris Ross wrote: > Sorry, stupid user trick. I had mdadm and friends in the disk I was running > on, but had _not_ installed those packages into the environment in md/ZFS > that I chrooted into. After installing mdadm (and the collection it brought), >

Re: Grub, sparc64, and compressed kernels

2018-07-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 07/03/2018 09:24 PM, Chris Ross wrote: > Okay. So, in prepping a chroot'd md/zfs environemnt on this machine, while > updating the kernel packages, I see: > > /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub: > Generating grub configuration file ... > Found linux image:

Re: Grub, sparc64, and compressed kernels

2018-07-03 Thread Chris Ross
On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 03:24:12PM -0400, Chris Ross wrote: > Okay. So, in prepping a chroot'd md/zfs environemnt on this machine, while > updating the kernel packages, I see: > > /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub: > Generating grub configuration file ... > Found linux image:

Re: Grub, sparc64, and compressed kernels

2018-07-03 Thread Chris Ross
On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 12:22:34PM -0400, Chris Ross wrote: > I'll run with this for a bit, and respond back with questions about getting > it installed onto software-raid partitions later. Thanks again. Okay. So, in prepping a chroot'd md/zfs environemnt on this machine, while updating the

Re: Grub, sparc64, and compressed kernels

2018-07-03 Thread Chris Ross
On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 12:04:09PM -0400, Chris Ross wrote: > It sounds from Eric like the grub I built from him doesn't want to deal with > gzip. But the one shipping (2.02+dfsg1-4) does? Well, easy enough to try > that on the same disk to see. But, I presume I will face the same problem >

Re: Grub, sparc64, and compressed kernels

2018-07-03 Thread Chris Ross
On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 05:46:18PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Chris! > > Any reason why you aren't just using the normal Debian procedure to setup > and install GRUB? Well, IIRC, because it wasn't working for me. But, I must admit, I'm not 100% sure I tried that on the simple

Re: Grub, sparc64, and compressed kernels

2018-07-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Chris! On 07/03/2018 05:38 PM, Chris Ross wrote: > As I was mentioning in other threads, I was getting grub installed onto the > "normal" sun-labeled ext2/4 partitioned disk in my T5120. Working with > Eric (https://github.com/esnowberg/grub2-sparc/issues/14) he helped me > figure out that

Grub, sparc64, and compressed kernels

2018-07-03 Thread Chris Ross
As I was mentioning in other threads, I was getting grub installed onto the "normal" sun-labeled ext2/4 partitioned disk in my T5120. Working with Eric (https://github.com/esnowberg/grub2-sparc/issues/14) he helped me figure out that grub wasn't working because the kernel in /boot was gzip'd. Is