Bug#423412: grub2: grub-install fails on PPC

[Gustavo Franco]

Version: 1.95+20070507-1

I had the same problem and following Jordi hint, tried mount my
bootstrap partition (hda2) that contained yaboot stuff using
/boot/grub as mount point. I can't tell if it works, because
unifont.pff is too large for my bootstrap partition, even without the
yaboot files there, see below:

# aptitude install grub-of
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
  powerpc-ibm-utils
The following packages have been kept back:
  gedit-common gnome-applets-data libgdl-1-common system-tools-backends
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  grub-of powerpc-ibm-utils
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/887kB of archives. After unpacking 2417kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Y
Writing extended state information... Done
Selecting previously deselected package powerpc-ibm-utils.
(Reading database ... 121443 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking powerpc-ibm-utils (from .../powerpc-ibm-utils_1.0.2-1_powerpc.deb) ...
Unpacking grub-of (from .../grub-of_1.95+20070507-1_powerpc.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/grub-of_1.95+20070507-1_powerpc.deb
(--unpack):
 failed in buffer_write(fd) (9, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during
`./boot/grub/unifont.pff': No space left on device
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/grub-of_1.95+20070507-1_powerpc.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up powerpc-ibm-utils (1.0.2-1) ...

# ls /boot/grub/
ofboot.b

regards,
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