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Bug 1484474 - Bootloader install fails on ppc64(le) since grub2-2.02-8, with "error: not a HFS+ filesystem."
Summary: Bootloader install fails on ppc64(le) since grub2-2.02-8, with "error: not a ...
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: grub2
Version: 28
Hardware: ppc64
OS: All
unspecified
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: PPCTracker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-08-23 17:08 UTC by Adam Williamson
Modified: 2019-05-21 22:07 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: grub2-2.02-12.fc27
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Last Closed: 2019-05-21 22:07:46 UTC
Type: Bug
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program.log from an install that hit the bug (with grub2 -10) (39.06 KB, text/plain)
2017-08-23 17:11 UTC, Adam Williamson 		no flags Details
storage.log from an install that hit the bug (with grub2 -10) (107.82 KB, text/plain)
2017-08-23 17:13 UTC, Adam Williamson 		no flags Details
program.log from an install that did NOT hit the bug (with grub2 -7) (39.43 KB, text/plain)
2017-08-23 17:13 UTC, Adam Williamson 		no flags Details
storage.log from an install that did NOT hit the bug (with grub2 -7) (107.88 KB, text/plain)
2017-08-23 17:14 UTC, Adam Williamson 		no flags Details
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Description Adam Williamson 2017-08-23 17:08:42 UTC 
When installing on ppc64(le) with recent Rawhide and Fedora 27 composes, bootloader install always fails. program.log shows:

08:52:12,037 INF program: Running... grub2-install --no-nvram --no-floppy /dev/vda1
08:52:12,386 INF program: Installing for powerpc-ieee1275 platform.
08:52:12,387 INF program: grub2-install: error: not a HFS+ filesystem.
08:52:12,388 DBG program: Return code: 1

Note, /dev/vda1 is a PPC PReP boot partition (per storage.log).

It looks like this broke between grub2-2.02-7 and grub2-2.02-10; it's very likely it broke in grub2-2.02-8, which bumped to a newer 'upstream' (i.e. a bunch of new patch files).

The program.log from a successful install on a compose that included the -7 package looks like this:

20:31:04,505 INF program: Running... grub2-install --no-nvram --no-floppy /dev/vda1
20:31:04,838 INF program: Installing for powerpc-ieee1275 platform.
20:31:04,840 INF program: Installation finished. No error reported.

so the detected platform hasn't changed, but -7 was happy installing to a PReP boot partition, while -10 (probably -8) is not. Perhaps some upstream change erroneously assumes all powerpcs are also Macs?
Comment 1 Adam Williamson 2017-08-23 17:11:01 UTC 
Created attachment 1317168 [details]
program.log from an install that hit the bug (with grub2 -10)
Comment 2 Adam Williamson 2017-08-23 17:13:19 UTC 
Created attachment 1317169 [details]
storage.log from an install that hit the bug (with grub2 -10)
Comment 3 Adam Williamson 2017-08-23 17:13:48 UTC 
Created attachment 1317170 [details]
program.log from an install that did NOT hit the bug (with grub2 -7)
Comment 4 Adam Williamson 2017-08-23 17:14:12 UTC 
Created attachment 1317171 [details]
storage.log from an install that did NOT hit the bug (with grub2 -7)
Comment 5 Michel Normand 2017-08-28 06:47:48 UTC 
Unable to validate the proposed correction because
with last composes Rawhide and F27  20170827  most probably packaging error because iso boot failed as per https://openqa.stg.fedoraproject.org/tests/150260#step/_do_install_and_reboot/18
Comment 6 Adam Williamson 2017-08-30 20:32:32 UTC 
Yeah, there was another round of grub2 / shim package naming issues. We *hope* the next compose that actually manages to complete (there was also another round of weirdness on the compose hosts...) will have all the issues solved at last.
Comment 7 Michel Normand 2017-09-01 07:39:04 UTC 
correction of this bug validated on openQA with Rawhide compose 20170830
Comment 8 Fedora End Of Life 2018-02-20 15:33:55 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 28 development cycle.
Changing version to '28'.
Comment 9 Ben Cotton 2019-05-02 22:03:20 UTC 
This message is a reminder that Fedora 28 is nearing its end of life.
On 2019-May-28 Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for
Fedora 28. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases
that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as
EOL if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '28'.

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Comment 10 Adam Williamson 2019-05-21 22:07:46 UTC 
Per #c7, this was fixed.
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