Re: Testing Grub 1.96 on RS/6000 7025-F50

[Bean]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Pavel Roskin <address@hidden> wrote:
> Quoting Bean <address@hidden>:
>
>  > You can add the command you need to use with grub-mkimage, so that
>  > they'll be built into the kernel. After grub2 starts, use ls to find
>  > out if the disk has been detected.
>
>  The ls command is available in the rescue mode, but its result is very
>  likely to be "out of memory".  The memory is the real problem here,
>  not disks.
>
>  I've seen a similar problem in qemu-system-ppc, where is was caused by
>  the limitations of the open firmware that comes with qemu.  But it
>  would not print "attempt to claim over our own code".

This warning is from grub_claim_heap in kern/powerpc/ieee1275/init.c,
i think the problem is it can't find memory to allocate, perhaps we
can add some grub_dprintf to list the memory map.

you can also check the memory info in openfirmware:

dev /memory .properties dend

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Bean