Bug#469585: grub-pc: consistently resets immediately after using "boot" command

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 12:47:26AM +0100, Mourad De Clerck wrote:
> Package: grub-pc
> Version: 1.96+20080228-1
> Severity: important
> 
> I seem to be able to install grub-pc correctly on (hd0) (using 
> "grub-install /dev/sda"), and grub can see all the necessary files in 
> (hd0,1)/boot/grub/. As soon as I try to boot one of the entries, it 
> seems to load the linux kernel and initrd, and then immediately 
> resets as it tries to boot. Trying to manually boot linux with the 
> command line results in the same. The same thing happens when I try to 
> chainload another system, or boot memtest86+.
> 
> I tried several older versions of grub-pc too, but none have worked.
> 
> On other machines I don't seem to have any problems with it.

Please provide a debug trace as described in:

  http://grub.enbug.org/HowToDebug

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Robert Millan

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