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

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 04:14:46PM -0400, William Thompson wrote:
> > 
> > I mean with grub.  It's easy to miss-identify a "hang" as just console fuckup,
> > and the point you described is precisely where you would stop seeing anything
> > if it was the latter.
> 
> There was no way I know of to determine if it actually booted or not (Given
> the setup I'm using).

Well, in my setup it's even harder, since I don't have any OptiPlex 320 :-)

I would also suggest that you try with GRUB 2 and report if it has the same
problem.  GRUB Legacy is deprecated and we're probably going to replace it
soon now.

> There are other users of grub that have reported this
> same problem with the OptiPlex 320 machines.

I don't see anyone else in this bug log.  Did any of these users contact us or
file a bug report?

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