Bug#560823: grub-ieee1275: Error "Memory Address not Alligned" when trying to boot any menu entry

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Colin Watson wrote:
> > Since #550160 has been fixed, the grub menu appears, I can edit the
> > entries on the console, etc.
> > 
> > But as soon as I want to boot one entry, I get the error message
> > "Memory Address not Alligned" and I'm back to the boot prompt "ok" of
> > OpenPROM/OpenBoot.
> 
> Vladimir Serbinenko (upstream) told me that he believes he's fixed this:
> the problem was apparently that Open Firmware only gives us a very small
> stack, so he had to add the ability to switch the stack pointer to our
> own chunk of memory in order to have a decent stack size.  Any version
> from 1.98+20100527-1 onward should have this fix.  If you still have the
> affected system in operation, could you please try upgrading to the
> current version in unstable

Done today as I'm back from holidays for a few days now:

[...]
Preparing to replace grub-ieee1275 1.97+20091210-1 (using .../grub-ieee1275_1.98+20100710-1_sparc.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement grub-ieee1275 ...
Preparing to replace grub-common 1.97+20091210-1 (using .../grub-common_1.98+20100710-1_sparc.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement grub-common ...
[...]

grub-install /dev/hda and grub-upgrade did not throw any errors.

But /boot/grub/device.map looked funny. There was no "hd0" or similar
inside the parentheses but some binary garbage (displayed with escapes
as zile show it to me:

(\367\351[\320\367\351[\320\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377) /dev/fd0
(\367\351]8\367\351]8)  /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST39120A_7BV080CK

I added the following line in front of this list, because those lines
above looked just too buggy:

(hd0)   /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST39120A_7BV080CK

But all I get now is:

--->8---
GRUB Loading kernel..
Welcome to GRUB!

Illegal instruction
ok 
---8<---

i.e. I'm back at the openprom prompt.

Not sure if this caused by that weird looking device.map, my manual
addition to it or something else.

> and letting us know if it resolves this problem?

I can't. I seem to run in a new error before that. :-/

Since Vladimir lives in the same city as I do, he's happily invited to
have look at the issue in real life with hands-on experience on the
affected machine. ;-) Just contact me by mail.

		Regards, Axel
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