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has caused the Debian Bug report #419994,
regarding Missing memory in Xen due to wrong detection of e820 memory map in
grub
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Package: grub
Version: 0.97-27
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Hello,
On my system grub don't properly detect E820 memory map.
Without it Xen hypervisor cannot use memory above 4G range.
Output from grub command displaymem:
grub> displaymem
EISA Memory BIOS Interface is present
Address Map BIOS Interface is present
Lower memory: 639K, Upper memory (to first chipset hole): 3406656K
grub>
I think that problem is located in do { } while (cont) loop at file
stage2/common.c around line 181.
It looks like while loop is optimized away (gone) during compilation.
Don't know if it's bug in grub or toolchain and unfortunately I haven't
necessary knowledge to verify that.
Patch below fixes problem:
--- ../common.c 2007-04-19 11:36:19.000000000 +0200
+++ stage2/common.c 2007-04-19 11:36:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -142,7 +142,8 @@
init_bios_info (void)
{
#ifndef STAGE1_5
- unsigned long cont, memtmp, addr;
+ unsigned long memtmp, addr;
+ volatile unsigned long cont;
int drive;
#endif
displaymem after patch:
grub> displaymem
EISA Memory BIOS Interface is present
Address Map BIOS Interface is present
Lower memory: 639K, Upper memory (to first chipset hole): 3406656K
[Address Range Descriptor entries immediately follow (values are 64-bit)]
Usable RAM: Base Address: 0x0 X 4GB + 0x0,
Length: 0x0 X 4GB + 0x9fc00 bytes
.... [ more ranges ] ...
Usable RAM: Base Address: 0x1 X 4GB + 0x0,
Length: 0x0 X 4GB + 0x30000000 bytes
grub>
Regards
Kupson
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Apologies; this wasn't sent as part of the dak rm action. I'm doing
this by hand. Since this was manual, this opens the chance for me taking
action by mistake.
I got the list of bugs via UDD, and am closing via -close on BCC. I spot
checked about 10 of the bugs, and they're all src:grub. The COUNT
matches the tracker page, so I'm sending this.
If I have closed a bug that's not about bin:grub or src:grub, please do
re-open the bug.
paultag
We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:
grub | 0.97-84 | source
grub-legacy | 0.97-84 | amd64, i386
------------------- Reason -------------------
ROM; dead upstream, replaced by grub2
----------------------------------------------
Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
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