From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.gna.ch (darkcity.gna.ch [195.226.6.51]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1282CB7CEE for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:23:39 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: Booting headless PowerMac G5 From: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= To: Romain Goyet In-Reply-To: <8028e5751003260320i37fee6a9l74379c3279850c9e@mail.gmail.com> References: <8028e5751003240332h3f13c2d5w941dda44b4740d7@mail.gmail.com> <1269509341.441.2779.camel@thor.local> <8028e5751003260320i37fee6a9l74379c3279850c9e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:23:32 +0100 Message-ID: <1269606212.4274.14.camel@thor.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 11:20 +0100, Romain Goyet wrote:=20 > 2010/3/25 Michel D=C3=A4nzer : > > On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 11:32 +0100, Romain Goyet wrote: > >> > >> By the way, as of writing this, grub2 on PPC from debian gives a "out > >> of memory" issue. Known bug. > > > > That's on the G5? It's working on my PowerBook, but I haven't updated > > the grub2 binaries on the bootstrap partition in a while... >=20 > Yeah, that's on a PowerMac QuadG5. > I think that's a known issue : > http://www.mail-archive.com/grub-devel@gnu.org/msg04455.html > However it might be another one since it's working for you. I'm using > grub2 from Debian stable. According to http://packages.debian.org/stable/grub2 that's version 1.96 +20080724-16, which is pretty old. Current in sid is 1.98, and it's only become usable for me in the course of the last year or so. --=20 Earthling Michel D=C3=A4nzer | http://www.vmware.c= om Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer