sparc: [Fwd: Bug#538030: grub-ieee1275 fails to install bootblock]

[Felix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de>]

Hi David,

could you please have a look at this?
It's a sparc problem.

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht --------
> Von: Alexander Vlasov <Alexander.Vlasov@Sun.COM>
> Reply-to: Alexander Vlasov <Alexander.Vlasov@Sun.COM>,
> 538030@bugs.debian.org
> An: submit@bugs.debian.org
> Betreff: Bug#538030: grub-ieee1275 fails to install bootblock
> Datum: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:26:05 +0200
> 
> Package: grub-ieee1275
> Version: 1.96+20090709-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> I got a problem trying to setup grub as a bootloader on Ultra45 machine with 
> LSI SAS controller.
> 
> Namely, after installing a package I tried to run grub-install, but it failed 
> with following diagnostic message:
> 
> ---
> grub-mkdevicemap: error: Cannot open SAS PHY ID 
> '/sys/devices/root/f0063e50/pci0000:02/0000:02:00.0/0000:03:09.0/0000:0a:00.0/0000:0b:01.0/host0/port-0:0/end_device-0:0/sas_device:end_device-0:0/phy_identifier'
> ---
> 
> I tried to create device map manually, and this message disappeared, 
> grub-install finished successfully; however boot loader is still SILO.
> 
> Regardless of device.map file, the error message above can be reproduced if 
> grub-setup being invoked with `--recheck' option.
> 
> The machine in question is Ultra45, HW info follows:
> # lspci | grep SCSI
> 0000:0b:01.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1064 PCI-X 
> Fusion-MPT SAS (rev 02)
> 
> appropriate dmesg part:
> [   57.705793] scsi0 : ioc0: LSISAS1064 A3, FwRev=01080300h, Ports=1, MaxQ=511, 
> IRQ=11
> [   57.728772] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      HITACHI HDS7225S A94A 
> PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
> [   57.757453] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
> [   57.761410] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 488390625 512-byte hardware sectors: (250 
> GB/232 GiB)
> [   57.768028] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
> [   57.771009] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 67 00 00 08
> [   57.772982] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, 
> doesn't support DPO or FUA
> [   57.782675]  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
> [   57.805259] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
> 
> 
> Tho problems (error message and grub boot sector not actually installed) joined 
> in one report since I believe they're somehow related.
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>    APT prefers unstable
>    APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: sparc
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-sparc64-smp (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> 
> Versions of packages grub-ieee1275 depends on:
> ii  grub-common              1.96+20090709-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version
> ii  libc6                    2.9-20          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  ucf                      3.0018          Update Configuration File: preserv
> 
> grub-ieee1275 recommends no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages grub-ieee1275 suggests:
> pn  genisoimage                   <none>     (no description available)
> pn  os-prober                     <none>     (no description available)
> 
> -- no debconf information



-- 
Felix Zielcke