Bug#560823: grub-ieee1275: Error "Memory Address not Alligned" when trying to boot any menu entry

Axel Beckert abe at debian.org
Tue Jun 29 11:17:14 UTC 2010


Colin Watson wrote:
> > [...] I get the error message "Memory Address not Alligned" and
> > I'm back to the boot prompt "ok" of OpenPROM/OpenBoot.
> 
> Vladimir Serbinenko (upstream) told me that he believes he's fixed this:
> the problem was apparently that Open Firmware only gives us a very small
> stack, so he had to add the ability to switch the stack pointer to our
> own chunk of memory in order to have a decent stack size.  Any version
> from 1.98+20100527-1 onward should have this fix.

Hey, cool!

> If you still have the affected system in operation, could you please
> try upgrading to the current version in unstable and letting us know
> if it resolves this problem?

Will do.

		Regards, Axel
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