Bug#545432: missing symbols noted in grub-ieee1275 within grub-emu

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Sonntag, den 11.10.2009, 20:55 -0400 schrieb Daniel Kahn Gillmor:
> found 545432 1.97~beta3-1
> thanks
> 
> just wanted to note that grub-ieee1275 continues to be a problem.  You
> can see this directly from a powerpc machine without actually using grub
> as the bootloader, with grub-emu.
> 
> just launching grub-emu puts the following text in the terminal:
> 
> -----------------------
>                       GNU GRUB  version 1.97~beta3
> 
>  [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
>    lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists possible
>    device/file completions. ]
> 
> Welcome to GRUB!
> 
> error: invalid arch independent ELF magic
>                                           sh:grub>
> -----------------------
> 
> I think this same error message shows up as the __ashldi3 error 
> when trying to actually boot from it via OpenFirmware.

This error has nothing to do with that.
It even happens on i386-pc.
grub-emu doestn't support modules, but the code dealing with this isn't
totally disabled.

I send another mail to upstream, but honourly I personally don't have
much hope that this gets fixed.
Hm maybe it would help to send also a mail to the Debian powerpc and
sparc porter lists.


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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer