Bug#419766: Grub fails to boot kernel on Dell OptiPlex 320 PCs

[Robert Millan]

clone 419766 -1
reassign 419766 grub
reassign -1 grub2
retitle -1 accessing xfs from grub is unreliable and may produce cpu faults
thanks

On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 09:22:13AM -0500, Nate Straz wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 01:49:06AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 09:00:21AM -0500, Nate Straz wrote:
> > > I dropped into the command line and tried some of the lines by hand.
> > > 
> > > > #font (hd0,6)/usr/share/grub/unifont.pff
> > > 
> > > The font load immediately reboots my system.
> > 
> > What happens if you run:
> > 
> >   cat (hd0,6)/usr/share/grub/unifont.pff
> 
> I tried "ls (hd0,6)/usr/share/grub" and that immediately rebooted my
> system.  (hd0,6) is XFS.  I copied the font to (hd0,2) which is ext3 and
> I was able to load the font and switch to gfxterm.

Ah.  Not really an OptiPlex-specific problem then.  Our xfs module is at
fault here.

It'd be interesting to know if grub2 works on OptiPlex without the problems
exhibited by grub legacy, though.

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