Re: Testing on PowerMac G4

[Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>]

On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 15:04 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:12:29AM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > I have tried the current GRUB on a PowerMac G4 running Fedora 8.
> > 
> > If I follow the instructions at  
> > http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnPowerPC, I cannot load grubof.modules.   
> > If I do it directly from openfirmware, I get "CLAIM failed" message.
> 
> Known problem.  I fixed this for Efika, but for some reason my fix didn't work
> for PowerMac.  Anyway, first of all I'd verify that if you revert to CVS
> version before this commit:
> 
>   2007-02-21  Hollis Blanchard  <hollis@penguinppc.org>
> 
>   (both of them, actually)
> 
> it works again.

Yes, it's working.  If doesn't load grub.cfg by default, but if I load
it with "configfile", I can boot Linux from the menu!

Sorry, I had to switch to a G3 machine in the meantime, and I didn't
have a chance to test the current code on G3 system yet.  "CLAIM failed"
was on G4.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin