Re: State of the SPARC patches for GRUB

2017-09-29 Thread Eric Snowberg
> On Sep 28, 2017, at 2:46 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote: > > Hi Adrian, > > On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:25:54AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Last year, Eric Snowberg from Oracle posted a number of patches [1] to >> improve SPARC supp

Re: grub2 with SPARC support available for testing

2017-02-09 Thread Eric Snowberg
> On Feb 8, 2017, at 6:23 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > Hi! > > On 01/23/2017 12:40 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> I just uploaded grub2_2.02~beta3-3+sparc64 to Debian "unreleased" which >> contains an additional set of 1

Re: Grub2 with sparc64 patches

2017-01-26 Thread Eric Snowberg
> On Jan 26, 2017, at 9:52 AM, louis ayotte wrote: > > On 2017-01-25 03:02 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> On 01/25/2017 08:21 PM, Eric Snowberg wrote: >>> I believe you are running out of memory here because grub is trying to load >>> all those frame

Re: Grub2 with sparc64 patches

2017-01-25 Thread Eric Snowberg
> On Jan 25, 2017, at 9:40 AM, louis ayotte wrote: > > On 2017-01-24 01:01 PM, Eric Snowberg wrote: > >> How big is your kernel? Will silo boot it? Can you start over and do the >> following: >> >> grub> reboot >> >> You should be

Re: Grub2 with sparc64 patches

2017-01-25 Thread Eric Snowberg
> On Jan 25, 2017, at 6:58 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > Hi Eric! > > On 01/24/2017 11:37 PM, Eric Snowberg wrote: >> That might be best. Before you do that though, could you turn on the >> following debug flag and send me the results: >>

Re: Grub2 with sparc64 patches

2017-01-24 Thread Eric Snowberg
> On Jan 24, 2017, at 2:06 PM, louis ayotte wrote: > > On 2017-01-24 01:01 PM, Eric Snowberg wrote: > >> How big is your kernel? Will silo boot it? Can you start over and do the >> following: >> >> grub> reboot >> >> You should be

Re: Grub2 with sparc64 patches

2017-01-24 Thread Eric Snowberg
> On Jan 24, 2017, at 1:44 PM, Frans van Berckel wrote: > > Hi Eric, > > On Tue, 2017-01-24 at 09:29 -0700, Eric Snowberg wrote: > >> With a sun/vtoc partition table like you have on a Sun Blade >> 1000. You will need to give it the boot partition (/dev/sda1 i

Re: Grub2 with sparc64 patches

2017-01-24 Thread Eric Snowberg
> On Jan 24, 2017, at 9:49 AM, louis ayotte wrote: > > On 2017-01-24 10:56 AM, Eric Snowberg wrote: > >> “ls" is one area that has not been completed for SPARC and has many problems. >> >> Try this instead: >> >> grub> ls / >> >>

Re: Grub2 with sparc64 patches

2017-01-24 Thread Eric Snowberg
> On Jan 23, 2017, at 2:38 PM, louis ayotte wrote: > > > > On 2017-01-23 04:27 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> I think there is enough documentation for this on the web: >> >>> https://www.linux.com/learn/how-rescue-non-booting-grub-2-linux >>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRU

Re: Grub2 with sparc64 patches

2017-01-24 Thread Eric Snowberg
> On Jan 24, 2017, at 6:34 AM, Frans van Berckel wrote: > > Hi Eric, > > On Mon, 2017-01-23 at 12:38 -0700, Eric Snowberg wrote: > >> Since the T5240 doesn’t support GPT, we have to use blocklists, could >> you try this instead: >> >> # grub-ins

Re: Grub2 with sparc64 patches

2017-01-23 Thread Eric Snowberg
> On Jan 23, 2017, at 10:09 AM, louis ayotte wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I made sure to install the correct version of this package as can be > seen here; > > # apt-cache policy grub2 > grub2: > Installed: 2.02~beta3-3+sparc64 > Candidate: 2.02~beta3-3+sparc64 > Version table: > *** 2.02~be