On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:59:38 -0500 Tom Horsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Twice now, I have had one of my boot partitions corrupted in this > strange fashion: > > The word GRUB appears on the screen, then the system proceeds to copy > the contents of the screen to the printer port over and over. > > Re-installing grub from rescue disk fixes the problem and all seems > to be well otherwise. > > Copying the screen to the printer seems like awfully complex activity > for any kind of random corruption to achieve. Anyone have any notion > what the heck is going on here? > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-grub mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub > on the contrary, printers often will happily reproduce the ASCII code being sent to them on a parallel port. The problem is likely to be a bad memory address somewhere. Addresses are pretty easy to get wrong. Are you using a recent version? If not, i recommend trying one. GRUB upgrades are pretty trivial. I use GRUB I version 0.97 _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
