Bug#550160: grub-ieee1275: symbol '__bswapsi2' not found

Felix Zielcke fzielcke at z-51.de
Tue Oct 27 13:06:56 UTC 2009


unmerge 550160
thanks
Am Donnerstag, den 08.10.2009, 01:40 +0200 schrieb Axel Beckert:
> Package: grub-ieee1275
> Version: 1.97~beta3-1, 1.97~beta4-1
> Severity: grave
> 
> I replaced silo o my Ultra Sparc 10 with grub-ieee1275 and couldn't
> boot anymore from disk afterwards, because grub aborts with the
> following message (transcribed manually from the screen) on the
> console:
> 
> ---snip---
> Welcome to GRUB!
> 
> the symbol '__bswapsi2' not found
> Aborted. Press any key to exit.
> ---snap---
> 
> I initially installed 1.97~beta3-1, but even an upgrade to
> 1.97~beta4-1 using a rescue CD didn't help.
> 
> The machine has the following IO ports:
> 
> 13W3 with Sun monitor
> VGA with VGA monitor
> at least 2x serial console
> 
> grub and the message above always appears on the 13W3 connected
> screen.
> 

The new 1.97-1 upload should have this fixed.
Please check it. It should be soon avaible on the mirrors.
Thanks for trying grub2 on sparc.

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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer






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