From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1O4VLb-0001PL-Dp for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:31:51 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O4VLX-0001Nx-8r for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:31:47 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45858 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O4VLU-0001Mi-D1 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:31:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O4VLT-00083v-AO for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:31:44 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f225.google.com ([209.85.218.225]:55070) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O4VLS-00083g-Sh for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:31:43 -0400 Received: by bwz25 with SMTP id 25so6846907bwz.8 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:31:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=TgVCsl0eE33e5clsw1QXLItGEmLExWqZ+Ip8YvqKVUc=; b=yFDsqQDcECsESVcg/ZQ//sYyWtSeH+hx5Ab8i5vIsu90xQSRz1q4KtWzHbX2SVSqbW /N6hCa+yfIoirz2R5yhtzGRxUUlMfUo3hc5JN2vvAjYyTaUP3tqvStifxBs7zu0WlH8c 8kG+fS6Sv2/rBI67aAyMpRDdzdrnx1qjnUvJw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=bdy6iJNRTCCFduFf0Mp4xoUFRMEKSNH/hLvhBCiuNt5BJhUsP3hR4hL1UMTTJrNSP0 v7DSjnPw2efW44CDh6vvbsJogyUFIVcbNlE2v1vFeRdb5iCRjnluUxyLZgDsEFY/LBEm +CfBxRGyMxxx5dZbgPK1JcyJ7fWH0aKZJfV58= Received: by 10.204.160.154 with SMTP id n26mr6987610bkx.16.1271838701348; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:31:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debian.bg45.phnet (public-docking-hg-3-197.ethz.ch [129.132.246.197]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 13sm4029606bwz.11.2010.04.21.01.31.39 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:31:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BCEB7E5.8030702@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:31:33 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20091109) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB References: <22824150.11271836407741.JavaMail.root@wombat> In-Reply-To: <22824150.11271836407741.JavaMail.root@wombat> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig6DDC87222460BE2D5D0EE0DD" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: GRUB2 for UEFI crashes at startup when we got 8 gigabyte of memory X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:31:47 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig6DDC87222460BE2D5D0EE0DD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable gburanov@gmail.com wrote: > In Febryary I was testing GRUB for UEFI and noticed that it was simply = crashing. > > See topic > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2010-02/msg00000.html > > At that time I blamed incorrect UEFI implementation on that computer (c= ause it worked fine on another one), but now I noticed that when I took o= ff one memory stick, everything is working fine on that special computer!= !!! > > So, it seems that GRUB2 is crashing on computers with 8 gb of memory (= or more?) > > Is it known bug? Are there workarounds? > > =20 It may be a recent regression because we have a reports of successful boot in such configuration (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-05/msg00179.html and neighbour threads). Be sure that grub is compiled with -mcmodel=3Dlarge. You can also try disable usage of >4GiB memory by adding #define MCMODEL_SMALL to kern/efi/mm.c > -- > This message was sent on behalf of gburanov@gmail.com at openSubscriber= =2Ecom > http://www.opensubscriber.com/messages/grub-devel@gnu.org/topic.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > > =20 --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enig6DDC87222460BE2D5D0EE0DD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iF4EAREKAAYFAkvOt+oACgkQNak7dOguQglxIwD7BxBt+d+VQTUqFbKoF2BGh6Yo LJGbzP/lfIaN21mfzcUBAI8KfLwkAYJTj5+xAqnj9O4vG4YRZC/jCj7nu5WB6LC1 =cO+C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig6DDC87222460BE2D5D0EE0DD--