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

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Sonntag, den 06.09.2009, 19:31 +0200 schrieb 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.
> 

A better workaround is to uncomment the GRUB_TERMINAL=console
in /etc/default/grub and then run update-grub
Even better would be if you would read the other bug reports and help us
to debug this problem :)
But thanks anyway for the report!


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Felix Zielcke
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