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

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Montag, den 31.08.2009, 09:31 +0200 schrieb 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.

Whoops. Yeah I meant 1.96 
> Felix, I see there is a new grub-pc in unstable 1.97~beta1-1. Should I try 
> it?
> 

No need to. There aren't any related changes. Actually it's the same
upstream release as the version from 2 days ago except version number.

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Felix Zielcke
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