Bug#485068: grub-pc: prints out GRUB and then hangs

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 02:10:06AM +0100, Sam Morris wrote:
> Package: grub-pc
> Version: 1.96+20080601-2
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> The latest snapshot of grub2 won't boot my system. After the BIOS
> summary screen there is printed "GRUB" and at this point the system
> locks up. A hard reset is necessary: ctrl+alt+del won't do the job.
> 
> I have /boot on a linux software RAID, however I am reporting this as a
> separate bug to #467501 because the symptoms are different.

Does it work again if you revert this commit?

  http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/grub2/fs/ext2.c?root=grub&r1=1.18&r2=1.19&view=patch

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