Bug#463081: [peter.hicks at poggs.co.uk: Re: Bug#463081: grub2: Machine reboots after 'Welcome to GRUB!' message]

[Peter Hicks]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 01:27:33PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:

> Did this happen on earlier versions of grub2 ?

No, I've been upgrading daily for a while and rebooting the laptop many
times during the day.

> What happens if you rename /boot/grub/grub.cfg ?  Do you get a rescue prompt?

Yes, the rescue prompt comes up fine.

> Can you reproduce the problem with grub-emu ?  E.g. by trying to access files
> in your xfs partitions.

No, when I run grub-emu, I can access files on the xfs partitions, e.g.
(hd0,5)/share/grub/unicode.pff.  The only strange behaviour was "error:
invalid arch dependent ELF magic" when insmod-ing (hd0,2)/boot/grub/vbe.mod.

I've tried commenting out the font(hd0,5), set gfxmode, insmod gfxterm,
insmod vbe and terminal gxterm lines in grub.cfg, replacing them with
'terminal console' with no change in behaviour.


// Peter