Everything seems to just work fine. Until reboot wherein I see :
Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/scsi@2/disk@0,0:a File and args:
Unrecognized magic number in media label
Can't open disk label package
Evaluating: boot
Can't open boot device
ok
I am guessing that my mistake was to use a gpt label on the boot disk
and the old firmware on this test Netra machine can only grok a sun
label. Just a guess. Let me know if this seems reasonable.
On 10/28/20 11:12 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Everything seems to just work fine. Until reboot wherein I see :
Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/scsi@2/disk@0,0:a File and args:
Unrecognized magic number in media label
Can't open disk label package
Evaluating: boot
Can't open boot device
ok
I am guessing that my mistake was to use a gpt label on the boot disk
and the old firmware on this test Netra machine can only grok a sun
label. Just a guess. Let me know if this seems reasonable.
Yes, GPT is supported on SPARC T4 and newer only.
Normally, when you use automatic partioning, the installer should detect whether your machine supports GPT and if not, use a Sun-based partition layout.
I may have mentioned in the past that I *always* use the expert mode
text installer to get the job done. Mostly because I can walk away from
the machine and run the bulk of the installation process remote over a
ssh connection. That is the greatest feature in the installer ever!
Certainly top of the top ten features in an otherwise slick and easy installer process. I assure you that Red Hat could learn a lot. I hate
their graphical garbage installer.
In any case, thank you for the great work and I wanted to simply let
you know that sparc64 seems to work fine for the basic stuff anyone
would want.
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