Bug#449135: Booting fails with 'CLAIM failed'

Robert Millan rmh at aybabtu.com
Thu Jan 3 16:06:16 UTC 2008


tags 422729 - help
merge 422729 449135
severity 422729 important
reassign 422729 grub-ieee1275
thanks

This does only affect Apple hardware, and I don't consider it RC.

Nevertheless, note that it's being worked on in upstream.  I expect there
will be a fix soon.

On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 02:23:48PM +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> Package: grub-of
> Version: 1.95+20070604-1
> Severity: critical
> 
> Hi,
> 
>   After doing grub-install /dev/hda, booting started to fail. Going to
>   openfirmware and running boot from there showed the following error while
>   trying to load the grub and drops me back to the openfirmware prompt:
>    'CLAIM failed'

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Robert Millan

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