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

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 05:45:41PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> 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 think we should make GRUB tollerant to broken device.map on sparc, like
we did for i386-pc.  But I'm not sure if this is possible.

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