Bug#550160: grub-ieee1275: symbol '__bswapsi2' not found

[Axel Beckert]

Package: grub-ieee1275
Version: 1.97~beta3-1, 1.97~beta4-1
Severity: grave

I replaced silo o my Ultra Sparc 10 with grub-ieee1275 and couldn't
boot anymore from disk afterwards, because grub aborts with the
following message (transcribed manually from the screen) on the
console:

---snip---
Welcome to GRUB!

the symbol '__bswapsi2' not found
Aborted. Press any key to exit.
---snap---

I initially installed 1.97~beta3-1, but even an upgrade to
1.97~beta4-1 using a rescue CD didn't help.

The machine has the following IO ports:

13W3 with Sun monitor
VGA with VGA monitor
at least 2x serial console

grub and the message above always appears on the 13W3 connected
screen.

-- Package-specific info:

*********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts
/dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 ro 0 0
/dev/vg0/root / ext2 rw 0 0
/dev/mapper/vg0-usr /usr ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/mapper/vg0-tmp /tmp ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/mapper/vg0-var /var ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/mapper/vg0-home /home ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
*********************** END /proc/mounts

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map
()	/dev/fd0
(/pci at 1f\,0/pci at 1\,1/ide at 3/disk at 0)	/dev/hda
*********************** END /boot/grub/device.map

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/grub.cfg
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
set default=0
set timeout=5
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.30-2-sparc64" {
	insmod ext2
	set root=(/pci at 1f\,0/pci at 1\,1/ide at 3/disk at 0,1)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 1c7c095d-32f5-4701-b443-a0047fd24221
	linux	/vmlinuz-2.6.30-2-sparc64 root=/dev/mapper/vg0-root ro  
	initrd	/initrd.img-2.6.30-2-sparc64
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.30-2-sparc64 (recovery mode)" {
	insmod ext2
	set root=(/pci at 1f\,0/pci at 1\,1/ide at 3/disk at 0,1)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 1c7c095d-32f5-4701-b443-a0047fd24221
	linux	/vmlinuz-2.6.30-2-sparc64 root=/dev/mapper/vg0-root ro single 
	initrd	/initrd.img-2.6.30-2-sparc64
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.30-1-sparc64" {
	insmod ext2
	set root=(/pci at 1f\,0/pci at 1\,1/ide at 3/disk at 0,1)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 1c7c095d-32f5-4701-b443-a0047fd24221
	linux	/vmlinuz-2.6.30-1-sparc64 root=/dev/mapper/vg0-root ro  
	initrd	/initrd.img-2.6.30-1-sparc64
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.30-1-sparc64 (recovery mode)" {
	insmod ext2
	set root=(/pci at 1f\,0/pci at 1\,1/ide at 3/disk at 0,1)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 1c7c095d-32f5-4701-b443-a0047fd24221
	linux	/vmlinuz-2.6.30-1-sparc64 root=/dev/mapper/vg0-root ro single 
	initrd	/initrd.img-2.6.30-1-sparc64
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.26-2-sparc64" {
	insmod ext2
	set root=(/pci at 1f\,0/pci at 1\,1/ide at 3/disk at 0,1)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 1c7c095d-32f5-4701-b443-a0047fd24221
	linux	/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-sparc64 root=/dev/mapper/vg0-root ro  
	initrd	/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-sparc64
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.26-2-sparc64 (recovery mode)" {
	insmod ext2
	set root=(/pci at 1f\,0/pci at 1\,1/ide at 3/disk at 0,1)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 1c7c095d-32f5-4701-b443-a0047fd24221
	linux	/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-sparc64 root=/dev/mapper/vg0-root ro single 
	initrd	/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-sparc64
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries.  Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment.  Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
*********************** END /boot/grub/grub.cfg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (400, 'stable'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: sparc (sparc64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-sparc64
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub-ieee1275 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.27       Debian configuration management sy
ii  grub-common                 1.97~beta4-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 
ii  libc6                       2.9-27       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  ucf                         3.0022       Update Configuration File: preserv

grub-ieee1275 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages grub-ieee1275 suggests:
pn  genisoimage                   <none>     (no description available)
ii  os-prober                     1.34       utility to detect other OSes on a 

-- debconf information:
  grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline:
* grub2/linux_cmdline:
  grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline_default: quiet
* grub2/linux_cmdline_default: