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

[Axel Beckert]

tags 560823 + fixed-upstream
kthxbye

Hi,

Vladimir Serbinenko came for a visit today and fixed Grub2 so that it
works smoothly on UltraSparc 10 now. He found several issues, of which
some are no more for Squeeze, but at least the RC bugs described in
here are fixed in the upstream bzr repo now (or soon) and are
hopefully included as backports from upstream in the next upload.

Axel Beckert wrote:
> > ---snip---
> > Boot device: disk  File and args:
> > GRUB Loading kernel...
> > Welcome to GRUB!
> > 
> > Can't read disk label.
> > Can't open disk label package.
> > Can't read disk label.
> > Can't open disk label package.
> > Can't read disk label.
> > Can't open disk label package.
> > Can't read disk label.
> > Can't open disk label package.
> > Can't read disk label.
> > Can't open disk label package.
> > Can't read disk label.
> > Can't open disk label package.
> > Can't read disk label.
> > Can't open disk label package.
> > Can't read disk label.
> > Can't open disk label package.

This seems to be just because the hardware can't answer Grub's
requests fast enough. Annoying, but no real problem. According to
Vladimir, Grub 2.00 will handle this better, but the fixes are neither
suitable for Squeeze nor for Grub 1.99.

> > Fast Data Access MMU Miss

IIRC this was due to something with broken framebuffer fonts (fonts of
size 0x0 instead of 6x8, etc.) and not using framebuffer at the same
time or so.

> > b) grub-install issued a warning about embedding not possible in
> >    this setup and that I need to use blocklist instead. It though says
> >    also installation succeeded without error: 

This warning is valid and will currently always happen on Sparc (and
therefore can be ignored for now on Sparc. :-)

		Regards, Axel
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