On 01/19/2011 01:11 AM, Axel Beckert wrote: > Package: grub-ieee1275 > Version: 1.99~rc1-1 > Severity: important > > This is basically the follow-up bug to http://bugs.debian.org/560823 > > When booting grub, before the menu is displayed, it runs out of memory > (even though my UltraSparc has 1 GB of RAM) As I said only a minor part of it is used as GRUB heap > On my friend's UltraSPARC 10 (with a different graphics adapter, 512 MB) > the "Can't read disk label. // Can't open disk label package" message > combo shows up only four times compared to eight times on my box. I > somehow suspect the amount of RAM (1 GB and 512 MB) to correlate with > the number of error messages (8 and 4) before the out of memory > condition. > It's proportional to the number of ghost disks > I got the machine back to boot properly by using Vladimir's installation > of upstream's trunk version in /usr/local/. But also that version runs > into this out of memory condition if I use the grub.cfg generated from > the Debian package. Only if I use the hinting feature (which currently > is only in trunk IIRC) to direct grub more quickly towards the proper > root device, then it does not run into this out of memory and > boots the system. > > Looking at your files I see that the real difference is following:set root='(vg0-usr)' > search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 49d242fd-f885-4059-b7a4-4aac2e6cd9a9 > if loadfont /share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then > set gfxmode=640x480 > load_video > insmod gfxterm > fi > terminal_output gfxterm > The grub.cfg from Debian attempts to use gfxterm whereas the one from GRUB doesn't. Try setting GRUB_TERMINAL to ofconsole in /etc/default/grub
-- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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