On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 21:37 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > If you want to confirm that it's grub-mkimage's fault, you can try booting > kernel.elf directly. In theory it should give you a rescue prompt.
That's what it does. And that's what we have been discussing closer to the bottom :-) > > In fact, the image doesn't even survive > > simple objcopy intact. "objcopy grubof.modules grubof.modules1" > > produces a file 208 bytes long. > > What is grubof.modules ? I never heard of it. That's the suggested name for the grub-mkimage output on PowerPC, according to http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnPowerPC Yes, it's long and misleading. Maybe it should be called grub.elf or something. I'm usually good at inventing new names, but I have no good ideas this time :-) > Wait, that would be EACCES in Linux errno codes. In GRUB, grub_errno > 13 means GRUB_ERR_UNKNOWN_DEVICE (at the time of writing; there isn't a > stable ABI for this afaik). Thanks, that explains something! > If grub_errno was set you should've seen an error message somewhere. It > seems there's something wrong in our error handling. :-/ I agree. > I would really check the GRUB_IEEE1275_FLAG_NO_PARTITION_0 issue. It was just > a guess, but it smells really badly :-) I'll have a look. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
