Re: Bootloader problem on IBM Power7 LPAR

Dinar Valeev <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Jun 2014 13:06:32 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.ppc
Message-ID <CADqALGRXvsQXQk25Z0816CBLHQXtk_KWfr9auj1dV-8PYveZTA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Schneck Dennis CIS SDE
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Is this correct ?
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *        2048       18431        8192   41  PPC PReP Boot
> /dev/sda2          417792     3180543     1381376   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sda3         3180544    20971519     8895488   83  Linux
>
Seems so, yes
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Dinar Valeev
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 5. Juni 2014 12:58
> An: Schneck Dennis CIS SDE; [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: [opensuse-ppc] Bootloader problem on IBM Power7 LPAR
>
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Schneck Dennis CIS SDE
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> parted /dev/sda resize 1 8M
>> WARNING: you are attempting to use parted to operate on (resize) a file system.
>> parted's file system manipulation code is not as robust as what you'll find in
>> dedicated, file-system-specific packages like e2fsprogs.  We recommend
>> you use parted only to manipulate partition tables, whenever possible.
>> Support for performing most operations on most types of file systems
>> will be removed in an upcoming release.
>> End?  [214MB]?
>> Error: Could not detect file system.
> Oh.. then delete partition manually and create a new one. Don't forget
> to set prep and boot flags on it.
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Dinar Valeev
>> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 5. Juni 2014 12:40
>> An: Schneck Dennis CIS SDE; [email protected]
>> Betreff: Re: [opensuse-ppc] Bootloader problem on IBM Power7 LPAR
>>
>> 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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