Hello Dennis! On 4/2/22 03:34, Dennis Clarke wrote: > I am not so sure about this yet until I can rebuild the required grub > binaries with full debug info. For at least a year ( or more ) I have > seen "really bad things"(tm) happen when I try to make a new initrd on > sparc64. Generally the machine seems to pack up and go away with nary a > single packet out to the world. To look into this problem I use a serial > attached good old 9600 baud console and watch what happens when I try to > do a make install from within the Linux source tree : > (...) > So therefore I think that there is a bug in /usr/sbin/grub-probe and it > really kills the whole "make install" process from within the Linux > kernel source tree or any other way you choose to run it. > > Has anyone else seen this ?
This isn't a bug in GRUB but a kernel bug that affects older SPARC machines like your UltraSPARC IIIi. Unfortunately, no one has had the time yet to bisect this issue. But since you seem to have a reliable reproducer, you can start trying to bisect the kernel to find the commit that introduced this regression. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913