From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1FH6D1-0007zR-Sa for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 16:28:39 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FH6D0-0007yr-Fi for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 16:28:38 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FH6Cz-0007yX-GL for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 16:28:37 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FH6Cz-0007yS-5A for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 16:28:37 -0500 Received: from [32.97.182.146] (helo=e6.ny.us.ibm.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FH6Fu-0001b0-A4 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 16:31:38 -0500 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e6.ny.us.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k28LSWA5012020 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 16:28:32 -0500 Received: from d01av03.pok.ibm.com (d01av03.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.217]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VER6.8) with ESMTP id k28LSWBV125460 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 16:28:32 -0500 Received: from d01av03.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av03.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k28LSWPX016146 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 16:28:32 -0500 Received: from bezerkwookie.rchland.ibm.com (bezerkwookie.rchland.ibm.com [9.10.86.237]) by d01av03.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k28LSWw9016124 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 16:28:32 -0500 From: Chris Abbey Organization: IBM LTC To: grub-devel@gnu.org Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 15:28:31 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <200603071429.26767.cablnx@us.ibm.com> <200603081135.12576.hollis@penguinppc.org> In-Reply-To: <200603081135.12576.hollis@penguinppc.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603081528.31577.cablnx@us.ibm.com> Subject: Re: OF default catch on grub2 on 43p-260 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 21:28:38 -0000 On Wednesday 08 March 2006 11:35 am, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > This part here won't work. GRUB doesn't look for an OF variable named > "debug" (technically such a thing does not exist, according to IEEE1275), > but rather a commandline argument. So you would do this: oops, guess I missread the conversation I was reading, thanks for clearing that up. > From the OF prompt, before you boot GRUB, could you do the following and > send the output: > 0 > dev /memory@0 > 0 > .properties > In particular, the "available" property is the one I'm interested in. That > will tell us what areas of memory are considered free... 0 > dev /memory@0 ok 0 > .properties name memory device_type memory reg 00000000 40000000 available 00004000 00bfc000 01400000 3ec00000 #address-cells 00000001 #size-cells 00000000 0 > boot floppy:,grubof.mod debug=all Failed to claim heap at 0x4000, len 0x1fb000 DEFAULT CATCH!, code=fff00700 at %SRR0: 00206090 %SRR1: 00023000 ok 0 > So If I'm reading that correctly, there is 0x00bfc000 bytes availabel at an offest of 0x00004000, since grub is asking for 0x001fb000, and that is less than 0x00bfc000... I don't get why it's failing. (And just for reference: no changes to the setup in nvram and my crusty old yaboot loads just fine, boots the kernel and I'm off and running... the machine has been beaten on pretty hard on a regular basis, so hardware wise things seem to be in good shape.) -- 6OB/7T -=- LTC Embedded Linux -=- Base Lead Nerd and Cat Herder Cube: 025-3/B207 -=- TieLine: 553.5061 -=- Extern: 507.253.5061 Notes: Christopher Abbey/Rochester/IBM -=- Net: cabbey@us.ibm.com The value of Open Standards is only evident to Open Minds.