Bug#371196: grub problems with memtest86+, patch

Otavio Salvador otavio at debian.org
Thu Jun 15 11:15:23 UTC 2006


Matt Taggart <taggart at debian.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I am also seeing the problem reported in #371196 with update-grub not working 
> if memtest86 is true. The submitter is right in that a couple calls to 
> write_kernel_entry are missing a parameter. It looks like when the "lockold" 
> functionality was introduced not all of them got updated. I'm assuming that 
> the memtest86 and  kfreebsd cases don't need the lock functionality? Here's a 
> patch based on that. If they do need the lock functionality then you'll need 
> additional stuff to check $lockold and the counter stuff, like the main 
> kernels do.

right.

I'll check and apply if possible for next upload.

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