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

[Martin Steigerwald]

Am Sonntag 30 August 2009 schrieb Witold Baryluk:
> > Maybe it helps if you disable the gfxterm.
> > In /etc/default/grub uncomment `GRUB_TERMINAL=console' and run
> > update-grub.
>
> Now this is interesting. After following this instructions, grub (still
> 1.92+20090829-1 from unstable) started working.
>
> Then I downgraded manually to 1.92+20090808-1 from squeeze (by manual
> dpkg -i with .deb packages grub-pc and grub-common, and then
> additionally grub-install /dev/sda to be sure), to be sure there is no
> problem with&without gfxterm enabled. And there is non.

Witold, I can confirm that the version currently in squeeze 1.96+20090808-1 
- I think you meant 1.96 and not 1.92 - works. I changed my pinning to 
this version and upgraded to it.

Felix, I see there is a new grub-pc in unstable 1.97~beta1-1. Should I try 
it?

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