Re: Bootloader problem on IBM Power7 LPAR

Dinar Valeev <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Jun 2014 12:40:01 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.ppc
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On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Schneck Dennis CIS SDE
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> i made a new install without LVM.
>
> grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.conf
>
> grub2-install --force --recheck --no-nvram /dev/sda1
> 170+1 records in
> 170+1 records out
> Installation finished. No error reported.
>
> But now:
>
> PReP-BOOT : Unable to load full PReP image.
> Loaded bf8000  out of cb00000  bytes.
>
>                       .----------------------------------.
>                       |  No Operating Systems Installed  |
>                       `----------------------------------'
>
>
>
It seems your PReP partition is quite big.
parted /dev/sda resize 1 8M
grub2-install /dev/sda1
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Dinar Valeev
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 5. Juni 2014 09:48
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: [opensuse-ppc] 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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