Bug#610490: grub-ieee1275: runs out of memory on UltraSPARC 10

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 01/19/2011 01:11 AM, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Package: grub-ieee1275
> Version: 1.99~rc1-1
> Severity: important
>
> This is basically the follow-up bug to http://bugs.debian.org/560823
>
> When booting grub, before the menu is displayed, it runs out of memory
> (even though my UltraSparc has 1 GB of RAM)
As I said only a minor part of it is used as GRUB heap
> On my friend's UltraSPARC 10 (with a different graphics adapter, 512 MB)
> the "Can't read disk label. // Can't open disk label package" message
> combo shows up only four times compared to eight times on my box. I
> somehow suspect the amount of RAM (1 GB and 512 MB) to correlate with
> the number of error messages (8 and 4) before the out of memory
> condition.
>   
It's proportional to the number of ghost disks
> I got the machine back to boot properly by using Vladimir's installation
> of upstream's trunk version in /usr/local/. But also that version runs
> into this out of memory condition if I use the grub.cfg generated from
> the Debian package. Only if I use the hinting feature (which currently
> is only in trunk IIRC) to direct grub more quickly towards the proper
> root device, then it does not run into this out of memory and
> boots the system.
>
>   
Looking at your files I see that the real difference is following:set
root='(vg0-usr)'
> search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 49d242fd-f885-4059-b7a4-4aac2e6cd9a9
> if loadfont /share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
>   set gfxmode=640x480
>   load_video
>   insmod gfxterm
> fi
> terminal_output gfxterm
>   
The grub.cfg from Debian attempts to use gfxterm whereas the one from
GRUB doesn't. Try setting GRUB_TERMINAL to ofconsole in /etc/default/grub

-- 
Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko


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