From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1N2Wlc-000141-MS for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:06:16 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N2Wla-00013d-8S for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:06:14 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N2WlV-00013B-6g for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:06:13 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34424 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N2WlV-000138-16 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:06:09 -0400 Received: from eir.is.scarlet.be ([193.74.71.27]:38127) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N2WlU-0000xG-D5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:06:08 -0400 Received: from [213.49.126.128] (ip-213-49-126-128.dsl.scarlet.be [213.49.126.128]) (authenticated bits=0) by eir.is.scarlet.be (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n9QL63iR018994; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:06:03 +0100 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=scarlet.be; s=scarlet; t=1256591164; bh=XE404EqRf4sASFAdxyxgWC88cce7Ft88kWGzBI2MyxU=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=GRK15k2g/IBfxCx/yHpbHbbz22V+a4IvG0Qt2c8wcCRUzJByOb1cMEPyCmjR/nMXC TySPM96PYvLUcLXO8ZEcy9ofZr3/fxmfqjAGC5tzF0yssIVN1pHrohMnLFLsoZ7mEx UiblpUScT1QCo8wqcYxUzB0nvdKC7Sgr6FslrC6c= Message-ID: <4AE60F3A.5080902@scarlet.be> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:06:02 +0000 From: rubisher User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090701) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <4AE21358.60906@scarlet.be> <4AE46D3E.8050700@scarlet.be> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DCC-scarlet.be-Metrics: eir 20001; Body=2 Fuz1=2 Fuz2=2 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: powerpc/sparc problems 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: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:06:14 -0000 Bean wrote: > On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:22 PM, rubisher wrote: [snip] > > Hi, > > You shouldn't need scsi, which is used by ata module to access pci > bus, but openfirmware would export the boot disk for you. > > Use these command: > > set debug=disk > ls > > This should print some debug information in grub console. > I try to do my best to clean up as much as possible info collected: Elapsed time since release of system processors: 149810 mins 22 secs Welcome to GRUB! Entering rescue mode... <<< I first noticed that grub fallback immidiately in rescue mode? GNU GRUB version 1.97+experimental cursor-on, unknown word [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists possible device/file completions. ] cursor-off, unknown word <<< I don't know yet what those 'cursor-on/off, unknown word' means? GNU GRUB version 1.97+experimental sh:grub> ls SRCTREE/kern/disk.c:245: Opening `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000,1'... SRCTREE/disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c:173: Opening `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000:0'. SRCTREE/disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c:183: Opened `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000:0' as handle 0x19ff180. SRCTREE/kern/disk.c:389: Reading `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000,1'... SRCTREE/disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c:239: Reading handle 0x19ff180: sector 0x0, size 0x8, buf 0x3a2640. SRCTREE/kern/disk.c:389: Reading `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000,1'... SRCTREE/disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c:239: Reading handle 0x19ff180: sector 0x20, size 0x8, buf 0x1c0dbd0. SRCTREE/kern/disk.c:389: Reading `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000,1'... SRCTREE/kern/disk.c:389: Reading `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000,1'... SRCTREE/disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c:239: Reading handle 0x19ff180: sector 0x188, size 0x8, buf 0x1c26980. SRCTREE/kern/disk.c:389: Reading `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000,1'... [snip] SRCTREE/kern/disk.c:389: Reading `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000,1'... SRCTREE/disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c:239: Reading handle 0x19ff180: sector 0x190, size 0x8, buf 0x1c0dc30. SRCTREE/kern/disk.c:389: Reading `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000,1'... [snip] SRCTREE/kern/disk.c:389: Reading `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000,1'... SRCTREE/disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c:239: Reading handle 0x19ff180: sector 0x458, size 0x8, buf 0x1c09940. SRCTREE/kern/disk.c:389: Reading `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000,1'... [snip] SRCTREE/kern/disk.c:389: Reading `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000,1'... SRCTREE/disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c:239: Reading handle 0x19ff180: sector 0x460, size 0x8, buf 0x1c09940. SRCTREE/kern/disk.c:389: Reading `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000,1'... [snip] SRCTREE/kern/disk.c:389: Reading `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000,1'... SRCTREE/disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c:239: Reading handle 0x19ff180: sector 0x468, size 0x8, buf 0x1c09940. SRCTREE/kern/disk.c:333: Closing `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000,1'. SRCTREE/disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c:226: Closing handle 0x19ff180. SRCTREE/kern/disk.c:245: Opening `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000,1'... SRCTREE/disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c:173: Opening `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000:0'. SRCTREE/disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c:183: Opened `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000:0' as handle 0x19ff180. SRCTREE/kern/disk.c:389: Reading `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000,1'... SRCTREE/disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c:239: Reading handle 0x19ff180: sector 0x0, size 0x8, buf 0x1c26980. SRCTREE/kern/disk.c:389: Reading `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000,1'... SRCTREE/disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c:239: Reading handle 0x19ff180: sector 0x20, size 0x8, buf 0x1c06910. SRCTREE/kern/disk.c:389: Reading `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000,1'... SRCTREE/kern/disk.c:389: Reading `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000,1'... SRCTREE/disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c:239: Reading handle 0x19ff180: sector 0x188, size 0x8, buf 0x1c048f0. SRCTREE/kern/disk.c:389: Reading `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000,1'... [snip] SRCTREE/kern/disk.c:389: Reading `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000,1'... SRCTREE/disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c:239: Reading handle 0x19ff180: sector 0x190, size 0x8, buf 0x1c26980. SRCTREE/kern/disk.c:389: Reading `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000,1'... [snip] SRCTREE/kern/disk.c:389: Reading `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000,1'... SRCTREE/disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c:239: Reading handle 0x19ff180: sector 0x2c8, size 0x8, buf 0x1c26980. SRCTREE/kern/disk.c:389: Reading `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000,1'... [snip] SRCTREE/kern/disk.c:389: Reading `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000,1'... SRCTREE/disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c:239: Reading handle 0x19ff180: sector 0x2d0, size 0x8, buf 0x1c26980. SRCTREE/kern/disk.c:389: Reading `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000,1'... [snip] SRCTREE/kern/disk.c:389: Reading `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000,1'... SRCTREE/disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c:239: Reading handle 0x19ff180: sector 0x2d8, size 0x8, buf 0x1c26980. SRCTREE/kern/disk.c:333: Closing `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000,1'. SRCTREE/disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c:226: Closing handle 0x19ff180. SRCTREE/disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c:82: disk name = ibm, sp SRCTREE/disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c:82: disk name = network SRCTREE/disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c:82: disk name = net SRCTREE/disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c:82: disk name = network1 SRCTREE/disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c:82: disk name = scsi SRCTREE/disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c:82: disk name = nvram SRCTREE/disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c:82: disk name = rtc SRCTREE/disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c:82: disk name = screen rem: `/vdevice/v-scsi@30000016/disk@8100000000000000,1' this is well the string put in nvram (I try also to rm ',1' at the end but that doesn't help?) tia for further help, ... That said, on my ibm p5 (I haven't access to any other system booting with different ofs), I have to install grub on a dedicated fs (as far as I understand, I can choose between hfs and fat, here I select fat) as follow: (p5_sid)root@p5tst001:~# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb6 2015808 1986772 29036 99% / /dev/sdb3 247919 161597 86322 66% /boot /dev/sdb1 23337 21302 2035 92% /boot/grub [snip] I copied my vmlinux and it's related initrd files in /boot/grub and use a simplified grub.cfg: set timeout=5 menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.30-2-powerpc64" { linux /vmlinux-2.6.30-2-powerpc64 root=UUID=3c51c43e-63a7-4ff1-9b1c-cf98addcb7ed ro sysrq=1 insmod=sym53c8xx insmod=ipr quiet initrd /initrd.img-2.6.30-2-powerpc64 } Ok, it always fall in rescue mode but shows me well a single line menu "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.30-2-powerpc64" and then my debian installation boot well ;<) That's a bit like with grub legacy on my i386 where grub stand in the same fs as boot but in a subdir but that's just a tips and not what we want to do? (afaik my reading told of max size of about 24Mb for /boot/grub fs, so it wouldn't be able to contains a lot of kernel) Thanks in advance for additional feedback, J. PS: those latest test was made with latest debian pkg src of grub2_1.97+experimental.20091026-1.dsc without optimization (-O0)