Bug#487445: Bug #487445 grub-pc: freezes after two keystrokes

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 04:48:16PM +0200, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 01:49:25PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> > Now with seeing that report again I remembered again this commit 
> > upstream:
> > 
> > 2008-07-21  Bean  <bean123ch at gmail.com>
> > 
> >         * kern/i386/pc/startup.S (gate_a20_try_bios): Change test order for
> >         a20. Run keyboard test last, as it will cause macbook to halt.
> > [...]
> > Please test this version and like Robert already suggested try without
> > chainloading and grub2 directly in the MBR.
> 
> Yes, it was the fact that grub2 was chainloaded that caused the problem.
> But I was afraid to upgrade because grub2 didn't seem to work.
> A deadlock. But I dared the upgrade and it works fine. So you might
> want to add a note saying that an upgrade might even be wise even
> though it seems to lock up.

This doesn't confirm that the problem is fixed, only that you can work around
it.

Please can you go back to the old situation and check if Bean's commit in
upstream fixed your problem?

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Robert Millan

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