Bug#588293: grub-pc: fails to allocate memory so nothing can be booted (on an old compaq laptop)

[Chris Samuel]

On Sat, January 8, 2011 11:27 pm, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
wrote:

> Please try the attached patch

Dropping that patch into the debian/patches directory doesn't
change anything in the builds I did last night, so I tried to
apply the patch by hand but it won't apply.

root at quad:~/grub-pc/grub2-1.98+20100804# patch --dry-run -p1 <
debian/patches/convmem.diff
patching file kern/i386/pc/init.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 140.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file kern/i386/pc/init.c.rej
patching file kern/i386/pc/mmap.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 37.
Hunk #2 succeeded at 55 with fuzz 1 (offset -100 lines).
Hunk #3 FAILED at 165.
2 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file kern/i386/pc/mmap.c.rej

Any ideas ?

Chris
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