From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1LwvZ1-0004l2-LA for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:49:51 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LwvYz-0004kN-Iw for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:49:49 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LwvYx-0004jh-Tk for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:49:48 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35819 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LwvYx-0004jc-Fn for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:49:47 -0400 Received: from mindfields.own-hero.net ([85.214.113.156]:57732) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LwvYw-0002Ln-Ng for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:49:47 -0400 Received: by mindfields.own-hero.net (Postfix, from userid 500) id F17D970108; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:49:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [134.96.247.46] (mordor.cs.uni-sb.de [134.96.247.46]) by mindfields.own-hero.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 934EC7008B; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:49:42 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <49F039BC.6090207@own-hero.net> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:49:48 +0200 From: decoder User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/x-pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1; boundary="------------ms030208030102040400020401" X-Hashcash: 1:22:090423:grub-devel@gnu.org::3vwzlJjipoo9GLjx:0000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000CW63 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Cc: st_admin@st.cs.uni-saarland.de Subject: Grub2 SVN on 64bit Xserve 2,1 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: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:49:49 -0000 This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms030208030102040400020401 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello all, recently, we tried to use Grub2 SVN on a 64bit Apple Xserve (Model 2,1) using EFI and after Bean solved some Xserve specific problems that were discussed on the Ubuntu forums (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=995704) someone else finally managed to boot his Xserve 2,1 model with Grub2. Ours however, did not boot and we isolated the problem to be a memory problem: When we plug in 4 GB or more, Grub2 fails (when you finally type "boot" on the command line, the machine instantly reboots). If we remove all but 2 GB of RAM, it works and we managed to boot a Debian kernel. So this seems to be a bug which only appears on this type of machine with >= 4GB of RAM. Unfortunately, I haven't found a way yet to get any debug output for you from the machine (serial console doesn't seem to be supported in EFI). If there is anything we can do to get this bug solved, please let us know. If this is the wrong list for this discussion, I'm sorry, I wasn't sure which list discusses Grub2 SVN bugs/problems :) Thanks in advance, Christian Holler System Administrator Saarland University --------------ms030208030102040400020401 Content-Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature; name="smime.p7s" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="smime.p7s" Content-Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature MIAGCSqGSIb3DQEHAqCAMIACAQExCzAJBgUrDgMCGgUAMIAGCSqGSIb3DQEHAQAAoIIJ7TCC Az8wggKooAMCAQICAQ0wDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEFBQAwgdExCzAJBgNVBAYTAlpBMRUwEwYDVQQI EwxXZXN0ZXJuIENhcGUxEjAQBgNVBAcTCUNhcGUgVG93bjEaMBgGA1UEChMRVGhhd3RlIENv bnN1bHRpbmcxKDAmBgNVBAsTH0NlcnRpZmljYXRpb24gU2VydmljZXMgRGl2aXNpb24xJDAi BgNVBAMTG1RoYXd0ZSBQZXJzb25hbCBGcmVlbWFpbCBDQTErMCkGCSqGSIb3DQEJARYccGVy c29uYWwtZnJlZW1haWxAdGhhd3RlLmNvbTAeFw0wMzA3MTcwMDAwMDBaFw0xMzA3MTYyMzU5 NTlaMGIxCzAJBgNVBAYTAlpBMSUwIwYDVQQKExxUaGF3dGUgQ29uc3VsdGluZyAoUHR5KSBM 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