Red Hat recently experienced an issue which I narrowed down to using a
grub core.elf image that was too big: the current limit is just under
2MB.
These are two patches that fix the issue and attempt to future proof
the area.
With these patches, the maximum size will be:
- SLOF, or PFW with the
Hello Daniel!
On 11/16/21 04:42, Daniel Axtens wrote:
> Daniel Axtens (2):
> powerpc-ieee1275: load grub at 8MB, not 2MB
> ieee1275: set real-base in the PowerPC IEEE1275 Note to 32MB
I have applied these now and tested them on my iBook G4 but that introduced the
following regression:
root@i
Hi Adrian,
Thanks for testing!
> root@ibook-g4-14:/home/glaubitz/grub# grub-install
> --macppc-directory=/boot/grub --no-nvram
> Installing for powerpc-ieee1275 platform.
> grub-install: warning: cannot open directory `/usr/local/share/locale': No
> such file or directory.
> grub-install: error
Hi Daniel!
On 11/24/21 01:51, Daniel Axtens wrote:
> Could you humour me and:
> - check that your kernel.img in /usr is indeed up to date
> - try grub-install ... -d ./grub-core?
>
> Many thanks!
Apologies for the late reply. I will give it a try later today and report back.
Adrian
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John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes:
> On 11/24/21 01:51, Daniel Axtens wrote:
>> Could you humour me and:
>> - check that your kernel.img in /usr is indeed up to date
>> - try grub-install ... -d ./grub-core?
>>
>> Many thanks!
>
> Apologies for the late reply. I will give it a try later today a
Hi Robbie!
On 1/14/22 17:43, Robbie Harwood wrote:
> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes:
>
>> On 11/24/21 01:51, Daniel Axtens wrote:
>>> Could you humour me and:
>>> - check that your kernel.img in /usr is indeed up to date
>>> - try grub-install ... -d ./grub-core?
>>>
>>> Many thanks!
>>
>> A
Hi!
On 1/14/22 17:54, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hmm, I must have forgotten that. Let me give it a try after dinner. The laptop
> just happens to be sitting next to me.
I gave it a try now and made sure to use the proper grub-core directory and that
the kernel.img in /usr/local/lib/grub/p
Hi,
Sorry, I missed this as well - my otherwise lovely threaded email client
doesn't sort on the basis of most recent message, but thread start date.
> root@ibook-g4-14:/home/glaubitz/grub# grub-install -d ./grub-core
> --macppc-directory=/boot/grub --no-nvram
> Installing for powerpc-ieee1275 p
