Re: Testing Grub 1.96 on RS/6000 7025-F50

[Bean]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:03 PM, H S <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  I built and tested Grub 1.96 on my RS/6000 7025-F50
>  and thought you might like to know how it worked.
>  First, some pertinent information: the system is
>  running Ubuntu 7.10, has 1.7GB RAM, an open firmware
>  flashed Radeon 7000, and a Symbios Ultra 320 card with
>  some drives hooked to it. Using directions at the
>  TestingonPowerPc wiki, I fetched and built Grub. I
>  used the grub-mkimage -n switch when adding the
>  modules, named the image grubof.ibm, and copied it and
>  a config file to the first partition of the drive
>  which I have formatted FAT. Booting the image produces
>  this error message:
>
>  Warning: attempt to claim over our own code!
>  Welcome to GRUB!
>
>  error: out of memory
>  Entering rescue mode
>  grub rescue>
>
>  I can get the list of help commands, but I guess
>  because no modules were loaded I cannot ls any drives
>  or do anything useful. If you need any further
>  information or would like me to test again I would be
>  happy to oblige.

You can add the command you need to use with grub-mkimage, so that
they'll be built into the kernel. After grub2 starts, use ls to find
out if the disk has been detected.

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Bean