Bug#610490: grub-ieee1275: runs out of memory on UltraSPARC 10

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Vladimir,

Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> > On my friend's UltraSPARC 10 (with a different graphics adapter, 512 MB)
> > the "Can't read disk label. // Can't open disk label package" message
> > combo shows up only four times compared to eight times on my box. I
> > somehow suspect the amount of RAM (1 GB and 512 MB) to correlate with
> > the number of error messages (8 and 4) before the out of memory
> > condition.
>
> It's proportional to the number of ghost disks

Ah, ok.

> Looking at your files I see that the real difference is following:set
> root='(vg0-usr)'
> > search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 49d242fd-f885-4059-b7a4-4aac2e6cd9a9
> > if loadfont /share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
> >   set gfxmode=640x480
> >   load_video
> >   insmod gfxterm
> > fi
> > terminal_output gfxterm
>
> The grub.cfg from Debian attempts to use gfxterm whereas the one from
> GRUB doesn't. Try setting GRUB_TERMINAL to ofconsole in /etc/default/grub

Will do. Thanks for the help so far!

Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> > The grub.cfg from Debian attempts to use gfxterm whereas the one from
> > GRUB doesn't. Try setting GRUB_TERMINAL to ofconsole in /etc/default/grub
>   
> Could you check
> phcoder at debian.x201.phnet:/tmp$ md5sum /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2
> 03a48cc9eb032c95489a8e31d9327288  /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2

1/0/0 root at hz:pts/1 01:48:49 [~] # md5sum /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2
03a48cc9eb032c95489a8e31d9327288  /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2

Looks fine. :-)

		Regards, Axel
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