Bug#462835: Debian bug #462835

[Bharath Ramesh]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Felix Zielcke <fzielcke at z-51.de> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 20.08.2008, 19:41 -0400 schrieb Bharath Ramesh:
>
>> >> It flickers some message for an instant I am unable to read it and lands
>> >> me into the grub command prompt.
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> Someone else did now a wishlist request to grub-devel [0]
> This seems to be normal if grub.cfg can't be found/read.

I am sure that grub.cfg is in the right place because I am just able to use
linux=/vmlinuz followed by initrd=/initird and issue a boot command.

When I comment out everything related to lvmmod and gfxterm then I get
the menu in the old terminal mode without any problems.

>
>> I am not sure if its the same issue that I had earlier, could it be that
>> gfxterm is still broken. I remember that a when I moved to grub2 that issue
>> of gfxterm not being able to be loaded when /usr was in lvm would cause
>> this scenario.
>
> You can just comment out the whole `if font ..' .. `fi' block around the
> gfxterm stuff then the good old console terminal is used.
>
>> I dont have physical access to my laptop at the moment. I will check
>> this and let
>> you know what the output of the above are when I run them in the 'grub>' prompt.
>
> Ok I just wait now.
>
> [0] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-08/index.html
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