Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Grub on Yeeloong: summary 2

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

Sam Geeraerts wrote:
> samy boutayeb schreef:
>> I modified my /etc/default/grub with:
>>
>> GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
>>
>> as specified in http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Projects/GNewSenseToMIPS
>>
>> and executed again:
>>
>> grub-reconfigure grub-yeeloong
>>
>> in order to replace in /boot/grub/grub.cfg the uuid in the device paths
>> with /dev/hda1 and to generate a new /boot/grub.elf file.
>>
>>
>> Now, booting the Yeeloong with Grub gives better results as following:
>> A/ Working (booting complete and fully functional system)
>> gNewsense GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.27.1
>> gNewsense GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.31.6-libre1
>> B/ Non working (kernel panic or frozen screen, e.g. just after the tux
>> or "100% free software" icon):
>> gNewsense GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32.2-libre-lemote
>> gNewsense GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32.1-libre-lemote
>> gNewsense GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-libre-lemote
>> gNewsense GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-libre
>
> This made me do some more testing of my own. These are my results,
> booting with GRUB first, PMON2000 second:
>
> .32.2-libre-lemote:  no, yes
> .32.1-libre-lemote:  no, yes
> .32-libre:           no, no
> .31.8-libre2-lemote: yes, yes
> .31.6-libre1:        yes, yes
> .30.9-libre++:       yes, yes
> .27.7-libre:         yes, yes
>
> This was with a grub.cfg that had root=/dev/hdaX, because it never
> works with UUID (as I've reported before).
>
Make sure that you added console=tty to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX.
> So it looks like something's wrong with .32 kernels.
>
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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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