Bug#463081: grub2: Machine reboots after 'Welcome to GRUB!' message

[Robert Millan]

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On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:43:16PM +0000, Peter Hicks wrote:
> 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.

During that time, gfxterm wasn't automatically enabled for you, right?

> > 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.

What happens if you cat that file from grub-emu?  (asides from seeing a lot of
garbage in your terminal ;-)).

>  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.

Can you try commenting out the "background_image" line as well?

Also, try running cat on that file from grub-emu too.

Thank you

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Robert Millan

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