From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
To: development@efficientek.com
Cc: grub-devel@gnu.org, Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>,
Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl>
Subject: Re: Powerpc grub_func_test never exits
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 23:05:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2b3d26be-2220-fd1c-ee42-2ab056f9bc8e@physik.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220114155951.16569697@crass-HP-ZBook-15-G2>
Hi Glenn!
On 1/14/22 22:59, Glenn Washburn wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2022 09:48:56 +0100
>
> Hi Adrian, thanks for testing this for me.
You're welcome!
>> On 1/14/22 09:45, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>>> I have burnt the ISO to a CD-R now and booted my iBook G4 with it.
>>>
>>> It boots but gets stuck at "Welcome to GRUB!". I can hear CD-ROM access noises
>>> from time to time but no changes on the screen so far. I'll let it running
>>> for some time.
>>
>> OK, so the machine just shut itself off. There was no other output besides the
>> message "Welcome to GRUB!", but I assume that is as expected and the tests run
>> silently, then shut the machine off.
>>
>> So, it seems to work on real hardware.
>
> I forgot the output gets sent to the serial port, so that's why you
> don't see anything. That's good that it works (ie shuts itself down).
> That leads me to believe there's a bug in PowerPC Open Firmware.
Ah, serial output indeed explains why I didn't see anything. The problem is that
this is an iBook G4 which doesn't have a serial output I could use, so output
to the framebuffer would be better.
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-14 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-08 0:34 Powerpc grub_func_test never exits Glenn Washburn
2022-01-08 8:11 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2022-01-14 8:45 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2022-01-14 8:48 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2022-01-14 21:59 ` Glenn Washburn
2022-01-14 22:05 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz [this message]
2022-01-15 4:15 ` Glenn Washburn
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