grub2.tar Error...

[Lim, Vincent]

Hi All:

Just wanted to make sure the grub2.tar from 
http://www.coreboot.org/GRUB2 is a working version.

I download grub2.tar per instructed: ' wget 
http://coreboot.org/viewmtn/revision/tar/edae9d3e3d999c07b2d8a99f04f2585
86eb79297 -O grub2.tar
'

However, when I tried to untar it, I received errors as below:

beamer:.../vlim/coreboot[ 191 ] --> tar -xvf grub2.tar 
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Read 264 bytes from grub2.tar
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Anyone has the same experience as me ?

Best Regards,

Vincent

Best Regards,

Vincent Lim
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[Ward Vandewege]

Hi Vincent,

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 08:28:59PM -0600, Lim, Vincent wrote:
> Just wanted to make sure the grub2.tar from http://www.coreboot.org/GRUB2 is a working version.

I've never tried that one. The lastest/greatest grub2 for coreboot is
probably the one documented at

http://grub.enbug.org/CoreBoot

I've used that version of grub2 with coreboot, succesfully. The only
issue that I've come across and has not been fixed yet is that Xen does not
boot - but normal Linux kernels are no problem.

Thanks,
Ward.

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Vincent,

Am Mittwoch, den 25.02.2009, 20:28 -0600 schrieb Lim, Vincent:
> Just wanted to make sure the grub2.tar from
> http://www.coreboot.org/GRUB2 is a working version.
>
> I download grub2.tar per instructed: ' wget
> http://coreboot.org/viewmtn/revision/tar/edae9d3e3d999c07b2d8a99f04f258586eb... -O grub2.tar
> '
>
> However, when I tried to untar it, I received errors as below:
>
> beamer:.../vlim/coreboot[ 191 ] --> tar -xvf grub2.tar 
> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> tar: Read 264 bytes from grub2.tar
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
> Anyone has the same experience as me ?

It looks like the link is wrong and it points to a HTML page.

$ wget http://coreboot.org/viewmtn/revision/tar/edae9d3e3d999c07b2d8a99f04f258586eb... -O grub2.tar
--2009-02-26 08:19:25--
http://coreboot.org/viewmtn/revision/tar/edae9d3e3d999c07b2d8a99f04f258586eb...
[…]
Länge: nicht spezifiziert [text/html]
[…]
$ file grub2.tar 
grub2.tar: HTML document text

Thanks,

Paul

[Patrick Georgi]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:22:51 +0100, Paul Menzel
 wrote:
> It looks like the link is wrong and it points to a HTML page.

viewmtn didn't make the transition to the new server as we dropped the
cbgrub2 project, which was its only user.

I checked out the revision linked above, and put a tarball at
http://coresystems.de/~patrick/coreboot.org-grub2-20080731.tar.bz2, and
updated the instructions in the wiki.

Regards,
Patrick Georgi

[Lim, Vincent]

Thanks for updating the http://www.coreboot.org/GRUB2 page. I was able
to build the grub2 elf file.

Best Regards,

Vincent Lim
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Subject: Re: [coreboot] grub2.tar Error...

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:22:51 +0100, Paul Menzel
 wrote:
> It looks like the link is wrong and it points to a HTML page.

viewmtn didn't make the transition to the new server as we dropped the
cbgrub2 project, which was its only user.

I checked out the revision linked above, and put a tarball at
http://coresystems.de/~patrick/coreboot.org-grub2-20080731.tar.bz2, and
updated the instructions in the wiki.

Regards,
Patrick Georgi