Bug#315774: segfault when running grub

[Daniel Sievers]

Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 05:08:51PM +0200, Daniel Sievers wrote:
>> Btw, the segfault also happens when I try to manually install grub into
>> the boot sector using the grub shell:
>>
>> device (hd0) /dev/hda
>> root (hd0,0)
>> setup (hd0) -> segfault
> 
> FWIW, I get exactly the same -- but when I compiled grub with "noopt
> nostrip", it started working again... Not even any valgrind hits, as far as I
> could see.
> 
> /* Steinar */

Actually it turned out that for me the problem was related to the
grsecurity kernel patch, which (intentionally i guess) kept grub from
installing the mbr.

-Daniel