Re: GRUB error: unknown filesystem on ia64

[Javier Martinez Canillas]

Hello Adrian,

On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 11:41 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> On 4/8/21 7:30 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > On 4/8/21 7:10 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> >>> Any news on this? I assume this should be trivial to fix when considering 
> >>> just the
> >>
> >> Not yet, sorry. I discussed a little bit with Peter yesterday but it's 
> >> strange
> >> that only affects ia64 and not x64. I'll try to take a look at this next 
> >> week.
> >
> > It's probably caused by different natural alignment which causes the code 
> > on x86_64
> > to land at the right position automatically.
>
> OK, so I had another discussion with Michael Karcher who analyzed the bug and 
> the
> problem is apparently that after the change, mkimage adds an alignment to the 
> module
> address which it did not before the change.
>
> And the suspicion why this affects ia64 and not x86_64 could be that the 
> module data
> is properly aligned as mkimage expects while it's not on ia64.
>

Interesting, thanks for the input.

Could you please share a both GRUB binary that works and one that
fails to compare ?

Best regards,
Javier