Re: [PATCH 0/2] powerpc-ieee1275: support larger core.elf images

[Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>]

Hi,

Sorry, I missed this as well - my otherwise lovely threaded email client
doesn't sort on the basis of most recent message, but thread start date.

> root@ibook-g4-14:/home/glaubitz/grub# grub-install -d ./grub-core --macppc-directory=/boot/grub --no-nvram
> Installing for powerpc-ieee1275 platform.
> grub-install: warning: cannot open directory `/usr/local/share/locale': No such file or directory.
> Installation finished. No error reported.
> root@ibook-g4-14:/home/glaubitz/grub#
>
> However, after rebooting the machine, the machine is now unbootable. The firmware
> is unable to even load GRUB. I'm just getting the question mark sign which indicates
> that the firmware cannot find the bootloader.

That's really irritating. (and apologies for rendering your machine
unbootable!)

I don't have a good idea what the cause of that would be. I don't think
I saw anything similar under qemu's mac99 model.

Is there any chance you could dump the `available` property of the
/memory node before grub is loaded? I don't think it's likely to be very
revealing but it's my best idea so far...

I've also since left IBM so I'm not likely to have a heap of time to
follow it up, unfortnately. The patch does solve a real issue on Power
systems, so I guess the next best thing if we can't root-cause it is
to make the link address compile-time configurable :/

Kind regards,
Daniel