Re: GRUB error: unknown filesystem on ia64

[Javier Martinez Canillas]

Greetings to you

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> On 4/8/21 7:30 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > On 4/8/21 7:10 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> >>> Any news on this? I assume this should be trivial to fix when considering just the
> >>
> >> Not yet, sorry. I discussed a little bit with Peter yesterday but it's strange
> >> that only affects ia64 and not x64. I'll try to take a look at this next week.
> > 
> > It's probably caused by different natural alignment which causes the code on x86_64
> > to land at the right position automatically.
>
> OK, so I had another discussion with Michael Karcher who analyzed the bug and the
> problem is apparently that after the change, mkimage adds an alignment to the module
> address which it did not before the change.
>
> And the suspicion why this affects ia64 and not x86_64 could be that the module data
> is properly aligned as mkimage expects while it's not on ia64.
>
> Adrian
>
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