From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JB7UO-0008S3-5g for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:46:56 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JB7UM-0008Ra-Aa for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:46:54 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JB7UJ-0008R4-Ui for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:46:53 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JB7UJ-0008R1-Pj for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:46:51 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JB7UJ-0006Ei-GR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:46:51 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JB7UI-0002rp-8u for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:46:50 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JB7T0-00059B-8E for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:45:30 +0100 Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 12:45:30 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080105114530.GB19370@thorin> References: <20080102103218.GB4295@thorin> <20080103030917.jl75lsuhkc8gk4w8@webmail.spamcop.net> <20080103121112.GB6169@thorin> <20080103102846.mhnl7v6xw4ksk48k@webmail.spamcop.net> <20080103155734.GA25410@thorin> <20080103112301.a1rs2lyk0oc8wsws@webmail.spamcop.net> <20080104123224.GA6657@thorin> <1199471219.17196.35.camel@dv> <20080104203736.GA9375@thorin> <1199499004.25368.34.camel@dv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1199499004.25368.34.camel@dv> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: Testing on PowerMac G4 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: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:46:54 -0000 On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 09:10:03PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 21:37 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > > If you want to confirm that it's grub-mkimage's fault, you can try booting > > kernel.elf directly. In theory it should give you a rescue prompt. > > That's what it does. And that's what we have been discussing closer to > the bottom :-) Yeah, but it never hurts to be sure! > > > In fact, the image doesn't even survive > > > simple objcopy intact. "objcopy grubof.modules grubof.modules1" > > > produces a file 208 bytes long. > > > > What is grubof.modules ? I never heard of it. > > That's the suggested name for the grub-mkimage output on PowerPC, > according to http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnPowerPC I found this in NEWS: "* Use the filename "kernel.elf" instead of "grubof" on ieee1275." Sounds like a deprecated name. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)