> On Apr 16, 2019, at 9:15 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > Hi! > > I have been doing some RC testing with GRUB 2.04~rc1 and actually > ran into a problem on sparc64 after updating from 2.02 (debian) > to 2.04~rc1. > > GRUB itself starts fine, but it fails to load the kernel with the > following error: > > Loading Linux 4.19.0-4-sparc64-smp ... > error: premature end of file /boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-4-sparc64-smp. > Loading initial ramdisk ... > error: you need to load the kernel first. > > Press any key to continue... > > I have tried reinstalling the kernel package but that didn't help. > > Does anyone have a clue?
Is your kernel compressed? > > @Eric: Does GRUB 2.04~rc1 work fine for you on sparc64? I boot with an uncompressed kernel and do not see a problem. If I try with a compressed kernel I do see the error you have above. But this is a known platform limitation: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/grub.html#Platform-limitations _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
