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Question about installing ppc64le on qemu #144

@Randrianasulu

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@Randrianasulu

I am trying to follow this guide:

https://github.com/kth5/archpower/wiki/Installation-%7C-KVM-or-PReP

At point where it instructs me to use (from chroot, as I understand)

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

this command complain about unable to find grub.cfg.new.

If I force grub-install it tells me PReP boot partition is not empty, suggest dd if=/dev/zero it. I followed this advice, then run grub-install.

It installed, but on reboot I was meet with

> grub 

prompt and nothing more

Does pacstrap now generate grub config automatically?

Or what else I should try?

qemu line:

qemu-system-ppc64 -cdrom /dev/shm/archpower-current-powerpc64le.iso -hda /dev/shm/5gb_ppc_le.qcow -boot d -nographic -m 1G -cpu POWER8 -accel tcg,tb-size=256

I removed 'quiet' from kernel command line there, it boots to login prompt, I can log in as root and cfdisk/mkfs.ext4 two partitions on /dev/sda (I only formatted second one as ext4, obviously)

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