On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I see, you're using qemu to test ppc, maybe I can try it some time. Is >> the emulation good, how close to the real hardware ? > > qemu uses so called Open Hack'Ware, which doesn't have proper terminal > support for the menu and doesn't report available memory in the way GRUB > expects. The later causes "out of memory" messages, but it can be worked > around in GRUB by hardcoding memory size. > >> btw, do you remember which version works ? We can track down the >> problem from there. > > It was working when grub-mkrescue was added for PowerPC. According to the > logs, that's January 31, 2008. > > It looks like my G3 PowerMac died yesterday and won't turn on anymore. The > same thing happened to my G4 PowerMac several months ago. So, I guess qemu > remains the only option for me.
Hi, Oh, this problem is caused by grub_ofconsole_setcursor. Open Hackware doesn't like the cursor-on call, if I comment it out, it will continue to run until the "out of memory" error. -- Bean _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
