Bug#544155: [grub-pc] grub update renders system unbootable (unaligned pointer 0x700ba)

[Henri Valta]

On Sunday 30 August 2009 22:49:39 Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Witold and Henri, what version do you use? The sid/unstable one (1.96
> +20090826) or the squeeze (1.96+20090808) one?

1.96+20090826-3 was the one causing the problems.
I downgraded to 1.96+20090808-1 and it is working fine

> Maybe it helps if you disable the gfxterm.
> In /etc/default/grub uncomment `GRUB_TERMINAL=console' and run
> update-grub.
> It would be good if some of you could do a svn-bisect to find the exact
> commit out which broke it.

I'll try to find time tomorrow to try these if no one beats me to it.

Just to clarify what I'm seeing: with the sid version, the menu displays fine 
but trying to launch anything from there causes the unaligned pointer.

Also executing commands or using tab-completion on the grub command line 
causes the error.

-Henri