Re: Bootloader problem on IBM Power7 LPAR

Hi,
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Schneck Dennis CIS SDE
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> i have installed openSuSE 13.1 on a IBM Power7 LPAR.
> The Problem is that the bootloader can not installed.
>
> I installed the openSuSE on LVM (with multipath).
>
> Yaboot (ybin) ist not available.
We have yaboot wrapped by lilo script. (lilo package)
> Is it possible to get it work with grub2 ?
> Or is there another bootloader to boot ?
>
> # grub2-install
You shouls specify PReP partition to install to. Like grub2-install /dev/sda1

> Path `/boot/grub2' is not readable by GRUB on boot. Installation is impossible. Aborting.
>
> # grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
>
>
> #vgdisplay
>
>   Check that device-mapper is available in the kernel.
>   Found duplicate PV tW1RfVfr0u3qt1daYZdTrMbzYP5um143: using /dev/sdb2 not /dev/sda2
>   --- Volume group ---
>   VG Name               system
>   System ID
>   Format                lvm2
>   Metadata Areas        1
>   Metadata Sequence No  4
>   VG Access             read/write
>   VG Status             resizable
>   MAX LV                0
>   Cur LV                3
>   Open LV               0
>   Max PV                0
>   Cur PV                1
>   Act PV                1
>   VG Size               9.80 GiB
>   PE Size               4.00 MiB
>   Total PE              2508
>   Alloc PE / Size       2507 / 9.79 GiB
>   Free  PE / Size       1 / 4.00 MiB
>   VG UUID               31SQqL-xam3-eVXS-k7z4-7QCr-EPvG-FjUomq
>
> # lvdisplay
>   /dev/mapper/control: mknod failed: No such file or directory
>   Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver.
>   Check that device-mapper is available in the kernel.
>   Found duplicate PV tW1RfVfr0u3qt1daYZdTrMbzYP5um143: using /dev/sdb2 not /dev/sda2
>   --- Logical volume ---
>   LV Path                /dev/system/home
>   LV Name                home
>   VG Name                system
>   LV UUID                3162uV-PvOa-O1el-0Oan-tWjm-nHiw-fvGqW3
>   LV Write Access        read/write
>   LV Creation host, time 10.1.7.154, 2014-06-05 08:16:35 +0200
>   LV Status              NOT available
>   LV Size                2.79 GiB
>   Current LE             715
>   Segments               1
>   Allocation             inherit
>   Read ahead sectors     auto
>
>   --- Logical volume ---
>   LV Path                /dev/system/root
>   LV Name                root
>   VG Name                system
>   LV UUID                0e1yxZ-kqLq-3dUV-fU7D-UhDy-6AhB-duqOIF
>   LV Write Access        read/write
>   LV Creation host, time 10.1.7.154, 2014-06-05 08:16:35 +0200
>   LV Status              NOT available
>   LV Size                5.00 GiB
>   Current LE             1280
>   Segments               1
>   Allocation             inherit
>   Read ahead sectors     auto
>
>   --- Logical volume ---
>   LV Path                /dev/system/swap
>   LV Name                swap
>   VG Name                system
>   LV UUID                qCA7TJ-cMAf-EDOu-vHbK-vuk4-TGNk-ttsDIW
>   LV Write Access        read/write
>   LV Creation host, time 10.1.7.154, 2014-06-05 08:16:35 +0200
>   LV Status              NOT available
>   LV Size                2.00 GiB
>   Current LE             512
>   Segments               1
>   Allocation             inherit
>   Read ahead sectors     auto
>
> Dennis
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