Bug#545364: grub-pc: out of range pointer 0x400040

[Roland Mas]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.97~beta2-2
Severity: grave

The recent grub update brought grub-pc onto my system and made it
unbootable.  I briefly see something appearing with the Grub version,
then the screen blanks, and I get the following:

,----
| out of range pointer 0x400040
| Aborted. Press any key to exit.
`----

  If I press a key, I get the same behaviour again (presumably from the
second drive), then the BIOS falls back on booting on the CD-ROM.  At no
point do I see a list of kernels or a shell.

  My setup: md0 is a Linux RAID-1 array made of hda1 and hdc1 and
contains / (and /boot, which isn't separated onto its own partition).
md1 and md2 are used in LVM for the other partitions.  From other bug
reports, it seems like the video card could be involved, so for the
record it's an ATI Radeon 9200.

  I switched back to grub-legacy for now.

Roland.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.27       Debian configuration management sy
ii  grub-common                 1.97~beta2-2 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 
ii  libc6                       2.9-26       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  ucf                         3.0021       Update Configuration File: preserv

grub-pc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages grub-pc suggests:
ii  desktop-base                  5.0.5      common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  genisoimage                   9:1.1.9-1  Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem

-- 
Roland Mas

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