On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 01:46:04AM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > Quoting Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >>My guess is kernel.elf doesn't include the necessary code. It's about > >>60k long. > > Now I'm sure about that. Unfortunately, grub-mkimage produces images > that the OpenFirmware fails to load with "CLAIM failed" (even with > just one short module). Indeed, bad things started with the first > commit on 2007-02-21. I'm afraid I won't be able to figure it out > without Hollis.
It can mostly be solved by analizing/testing the regression diff. In August I sent an updated version that might be helpful: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-08/msg00031.html just take the grub-mkimage.c part of it and try to revert it on CVS HEAD, that would confirm it's a grub-mkimage problem. Then apply the hunks selectively untill you find the exact change that broke it. And finally it's just a matter of "looking hard" at that hunk untill it's coerced to reveal the problem :-) This seems to affect many powermac users. I'd have gone through the bug myself, but I don't have access to the hardware. > (Not to put any pressure of anyone, but GNU ChangeLog shows its age > here - the detailed changes are described, but the motivation behind > the whole patch is not, yet the details can be recovered with the > version control, whereas the motivation has to be guessed) Full ack. But, you didn't mention any alternative. > Both ide0/disk and cd refer to the CD-ROM. The messages are not shown > if there is a CD in the drive. > > >What happens if you set debug=disk ? > > Typing from another monitor, sorry for possible typos. > > disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c:65: Opening `ide1/disk:0'. > disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c:74: Opened `ide1/disk:0' as handle 0xff9d1c00. > kern/disk.c:299: Opening `ide1/disk' failed. > kern/disk.c:312: Closing `ide1/disk'. This seems to be contradictory. If OF returned a handle, why does the open fail ? Looks like GRUB doesn't like something but isn't telling you what. I'd investigate that part; at the least it can mean our error handling isn't good enough. -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
