Bug#488000: grub2: fails to boot dq35jo intel board

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 03:27:00PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Robert Millan wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Were you using GPT?  In that case d-i picks grub2.
> 
> seems not.
> 
> dpkg -l grub*
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name                                 Version                     Description
> +++-====================================-===========================-============================================
> ii  grub                                 0.97-40                     GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy version)
> ii  grub-common                          1.96+20080626-1             GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (common 
> un  grub-efi                             <none>                      (no description available)
> un  grub-ieee1275                        <none>                      (no description available)
> un  grub-legacy-doc                      <none>                      (no description available)
> un  grub-linuxbios                       <none>                      (no description available)
> un  grub-pc                              <none>                      (no description available)
> 
> attached are 3 mbr, the first one is after grub install from d-i,
> the second one is after letting d-i running lilo (yeah unstable repo
> added temporarly), the third one is then letting d-i run grub install.
> 
> the second and third are bootable where as the first ist not

And no message is displayed?  qemu displays "GRUB" when booting the first one.

Does the same problem happen with GRUB 2?

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Robert Millan

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