Re: GRUB fails to load kernel on linux-sparc64

2019-04-18 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 11:43:01AM -0600, Eric Snowberg wrote: > > On Apr 17, 2019, at 3:40 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > > wrote: > > On 4/17/19 11:34 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >> Going to decompress the kernel now and see if that helps. I'm just > >> surprised > >> that GRUB sup

Re: GRUB fails to load kernel on linux-sparc64

2019-04-17 Thread Eric Snowberg
> On Apr 17, 2019, at 3:40 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > On 4/17/19 11:34 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Going to decompress the kernel now and see if that helps. I'm just surprised >> that GRUB supposedly doesn't support compressed kernels on sparc64 when >> we have used

Re: GRUB fails to load kernel on linux-sparc64

2019-04-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/17/19 11:34 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Going to decompress the kernel now and see if that helps. I'm just surprised > that GRUB supposedly doesn't support compressed kernels on sparc64 when > we have used that before with 2.02. Okay, the uncompressed kernel works. Guess it was jus

Re: GRUB fails to load kernel on linux-sparc64

2019-04-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/17/19 11:02 AM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Try > insmod xzio > insmod gzio > insmod lzopio That doesn't help unfortunately: GNU GRUB version 2.04~rc1 Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command c

Re: GRUB fails to load kernel on linux-sparc64

2019-04-17 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Try insmod xzio insmod gzio insmod lzopio On Wed, 17 Apr 2019, 07:39 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi Eric! > > On 4/16/19 9:27 PM, Eric Snowberg wrote: > >> @Eric: Does GRUB 2.04~rc1 work fine for you on sparc64? > > > > I boot with an uncompressed kernel an

Re: GRUB fails to load kernel on linux-sparc64

2019-04-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 09:38:34PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 4/16/19 9:27 PM, Eric Snowberg wrote: > >> @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 th

Re: GRUB fails to load kernel on linux-sparc64

2019-04-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 09:51:07PM +0200, Didier Spaier wrote: > On 16/04/2019 21:38, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > That would indeed explain the problem. However, Debian's GRUB version > > does support compressed kernels on sparc64. I wonder whether we have > > a local modification that mak

Re: GRUB fails to load kernel on linux-sparc64

2019-04-16 Thread Didier Spaier
On 16/04/2019 21:38, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > That would indeed explain the problem. However, Debian's GRUB version > does support compressed kernels on sparc64. I wonder whether we have > a local modification that makes this possible. Which makes me ask this OT question: with the releas

Re: GRUB fails to load kernel on linux-sparc64

2019-04-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Eric! On 4/16/19 9:27 PM, Eric Snowberg wrote: >> @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: > htt

Re: GRUB fails to load kernel on linux-sparc64

2019-04-16 Thread Eric Snowberg
> On Apr 16, 2019, at 9:15 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > 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 t