URL:
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Summary: Unable to load simple boot manager (SBM) with Grub
2
Project: GNU GRUB
Submitted by: michael37
Submitted on: Wed 07 Oct 2009 01:06:23 AM GMT
Category: Booting
Severity: Major
Priority: 5 - Normal
Item Group: Software Error
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Name: Michael37
Originator Email:
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release:
Release: SVN
Reproducibility: Every Time
Planned Release: None
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Details:
SBM is a nice handy tool which allows booting from devices that BIOS doesn't
properly support, for example, from some USB CD-ROMs or from diagnostics dell
partition.
In Jaunty and earlier releases with Grub 1, using SBM was trivial (inspired
by http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/GRUB/Chainloaded_CD-ROM, but no downloads
required). Simply install package syslinux, copy file
/usr/lib/syslinux/memdisk to /boot; then copy file /install/sbm.bin from any
Ubuntu install CD to /boot (reference:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SmartBootManager). Finally, set up grub 1
entry
title SBM
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/memdisk
initrd /boot/sbm.bin
The same strategy doesn't work for Karmic with grub 2 (version 1.97 beta 3).
I added the following entry to /boot/grub/grub.cfg using
/etc/grub.d/40_custom:
menuentry "SBM" {
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 1017bb9e-ad12-494f-a580-6f94b015891d
linux /boot/memdisk
initrd /boot/sbm.bin
}
When I try to choose this entry in grub2 menu, I get one line of text as if
kernel is trying to boot, then screen blanks and computer hangs.
I tried using memdisk and sbm.bin from both Jaunty and Karmic under Karmic
and neither work. Looks like grub problem by elimination.
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