Bug#711019: load_video produces "file not found" errors and causes GRUB to pause when booting

Andrei POPESCU andreimpopescu at gmail.com
Sat Jul 26 23:15:52 UTC 2014


On Sb, 26 iul 14, 21:48:55, Colin Watson wrote:
> 
> This may be pointing at the root of the problem, then.  GRUB detects
> whether all_video is available by way of a feature flag which is
> compiled into the core image.  If you're installing GRUB to a location
> that isn't where the system is actually booting from - regrettably easy
> to do with the BIOS design! - then that would account for this.  You
> should fix this sooner rather than later since such misconfiguration can
> cause real boot failures on subsequent upgrades.

Well, at least that explains it for my case as the "misconfiguration" 
iss intentional: I have both stable and sid on this machine and the 
stable grub is installed into the MBR and chainloads the sid grub.cfg. 

But then, I'm not the submitter so I'll let him comment on this.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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