tags 560823 + fixed-upstream kthxbye Hi,
Vladimir Serbinenko came for a visit today and fixed Grub2 so that it works smoothly on UltraSparc 10 now. He found several issues, of which some are no more for Squeeze, but at least the RC bugs described in here are fixed in the upstream bzr repo now (or soon) and are hopefully included as backports from upstream in the next upload. Axel Beckert wrote: > > ---snip--- > > Boot device: disk File and args: > > GRUB Loading kernel... > > Welcome to GRUB! > > > > Can't read disk label. > > Can't open disk label package. > > Can't read disk label. > > Can't open disk label package. > > Can't read disk label. > > Can't open disk label package. > > Can't read disk label. > > Can't open disk label package. > > Can't read disk label. > > Can't open disk label package. > > Can't read disk label. > > Can't open disk label package. > > Can't read disk label. > > Can't open disk label package. > > Can't read disk label. > > Can't open disk label package. This seems to be just because the hardware can't answer Grub's requests fast enough. Annoying, but no real problem. According to Vladimir, Grub 2.00 will handle this better, but the fixes are neither suitable for Squeeze nor for Grub 1.99. > > Fast Data Access MMU Miss IIRC this was due to something with broken framebuffer fonts (fonts of size 0x0 instead of 6x8, etc.) and not using framebuffer at the same time or so. > > b) grub-install issued a warning about embedding not possible in > > this setup and that I need to use blocklist instead. It though says > > also installation succeeded without error: This warning is valid and will currently always happen on Sparc (and therefore can be ignored for now on Sparc. :-) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org