From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Lwvnu-0002Rx-Ig for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:05:14 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lwvns-0002RT-HR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:05:12 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lwvnr-0002R0-My for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:05:12 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47419 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lwvnr-0002Qv-EF for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:05:11 -0400 Received: from mindfields.own-hero.net ([85.214.113.156]:39792) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lwvnq-00056w-GN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:05:11 -0400 Received: by mindfields.own-hero.net (Postfix, from userid 500) id A54E37010F; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:05:08 +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 4FA3C700AF for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:05:03 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <49F03D55.5060800@own-hero.net> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:05:09 +0200 From: decoder User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <49F039BC.6090207@own-hero.net> <7abf96460904230256t1aed7201jb5ac82643ccd3546@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7abf96460904230256t1aed7201jb5ac82643ccd3546@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/x-pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1; boundary="------------ms070106060408040909060505" X-Hashcash: 1:22:090423:grub-devel@gnu.org::ttQH0n9DqjkIDgY5:0000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000j1tv X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: 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 10:05:12 -0000 This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms070106060408040909060505 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, yes I am compiling grub on a 64 bit kernel and with x86_64 as target (--with-platform=efi --target=x86_64) Compiling on a 32 bit machine does not succeed because the Xserve 2,1 does not accept 32 bit EFI images. Best regards, Chris Chip Panarchy wrote: > Hello > > I don't know much about this. > > However, you're compiling it on a 64-bit kernel, right? > > The limitation you are talking about is the 32-bit 2 64-bit > limitation. 32-bit only supports up to 3.25GB of RAM. > > Have you tried compiling it on 32-bit os? That may (for some reason) > fix the problem. > > Give it a go. > > Panarchy > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: decoder > Date: Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 7:49 PM > Subject: Grub2 SVN on 64bit Xserve 2,1 > To: grub-devel@gnu.org > Cc: st_admin@st.cs.uni-saarland.de > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > > > > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 7:49 PM, decoder wrote: > >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Grub-devel mailing list >> Grub-devel@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > --------------ms070106060408040909060505 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 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