Bug#652593: grub-pc: fails to boot with "unaligned pointer" on KVM

[Uli Martens]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1
Severity: normal

I'm getting the same effects on a squeeze system with qemu-kvm upgraded to a
0.14.1+dgsg-4 backport. I have not tested with squeeze's qemu-kvm. For me, the exact pointer address reported differs, but changing the virtual machine's graphics adapter from vmvga to cirrus works for me, too.

The full error message shown is:

| unaligned pointer 0x8ef30002
| Aborted. Press any key to exit.

Pressing any key does not seem to do anything...

I'm not sure whether this is a bug in grub-pc, qemu-kvm or vgabios, so I'm not reassigning it.

Best regards,
Uli