Re: [PATCH] Move ELF program header

[Bean]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Pavel Roskin <address@hidden> wrote:
> Quoting Bean <address@hidden>:
>
>> I see, you're using qemu to test ppc, maybe I can try it some time. Is
>> the emulation good, how close to the real hardware ?
>
> qemu uses so called Open Hack'Ware, which doesn't have proper terminal
> support for the menu and doesn't report available memory in the way GRUB
> expects.  The later causes "out of memory" messages, but it can be worked
> around in GRUB by hardcoding memory size.
>
>> btw, do you remember which version works ? We can track down the
>> problem from there.
>
> It was working when grub-mkrescue was added for PowerPC.  According to the
> logs, that's January 31, 2008.
>
> It looks like my G3 PowerMac died yesterday and won't turn on anymore.  The
> same thing happened to my G4 PowerMac several months ago.  So, I guess qemu
> remains the only option for me.

Hi,

Oh, this problem is caused by grub_ofconsole_setcursor. Open Hackware
doesn't like the cursor-on call, if I comment it out, it will continue
to run until the "out of memory" error.

-- 
Bean