Bug#555842: System Unable To Boot --- unaligned pointer 0x12404

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Mittwoch, den 11.11.2009, 19:37 -0600 schrieb Brian Paterni:
> Package: grub2
> Version: 1.97+experimental.20091111-1
> 
> 
> Error message:
> unaligned pointer 0x12404
> Aborted. Press any key to exit.
> 
> Reboot and Select proper Boot device
> or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> This repeats until I insert some other bootable media and started 
> happening when I upgraded to 1.97+experimental.20091111-1. I've tried 
> reinstalling grub2 1.97 from an Ubuntu liveCD, but that doesn't seem to 
> fix the problem.

Unfortunately the same happened to me today.
Seems like I should even test the experimental uploads on my real
hardware first before uploading.
I *think* this didn't happen with previous experimental upload.

1.97-1 though works still fine for me.
How did you reinstalled?
If you don't get the grub-install output in the postinst, then you have
to do either sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc and select the device you
boot from or run grub-install /dev/sda yourself.


-- 
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer