-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm sorry, I gave you attitude when I was frustrated. You didn't deserve that.
I didn't edit grub.cfg, and this is not the first time I installed grub-pc. I've been using grub-pc for a few months. The edits I did do consisted of commenting out lines. I don't know the syntax, but I understand enough to figure out what a conditional block looks like. When the new version came out, I took a snapshot of the virtual machine I was testing on and held my breath. The problem seems to be I can't hold my breath long enough. If I wait a bit longer I get a menu. The menu is slow to the point of unresponsive, but I get a working system if I wait for it to pick the default. At this point I assume all of grub2 executes at ring 0 and the slowdown is due to virtualbox moving all of it to ring 1. I'll reinstall grub-pc on my tower and see if it's fixed. If so, I hope I didn't waste too much of your time. Despite my complaints, I like grub2 a lot and I'm really impressed with the progress it's made. Robert Millan wrote: > severity 466598 important > thanks > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 04:23:39PM -0500, Barry Schatz wrote: >> Using the newest grub-pc package, I ran update-grub and then >> grub-install. Chainloading doesn't work by the way, because >> it doesn't create the chainload option in legacy grub. > > Was this the first time you installed grub-pc? > >> Booting >> straight to grub2 results in "Welcome to Grub" and an >> unresponsive computer. >> >> In a previous release the if statements created by 00_header >> PROVIDED BY THE GRUB-PC PACKAGE were a problem, but removing >> those if statements doesn't avoid the problem any more. > > What do you see after "Welcome to Grub" when you use grub.cfg AS generated > by update-grub WITHOUT MODIFIING IT? > >> insmod png >> if background_image >> (hd0,5)/share/images/desktop-base/debian-blueish-wallpaper-640x480.png ; >> then > > This is wrong. Don't do it. Don't edit the file at all unless you understand > the syntax. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) iD8DBQFHvDmMtXr3a6NTXfoRAsxEAJ94gCnzL93dKn/oa4ZwbLxa9RoblwCdHD+9 VBM9uU9tyzWhVfLY8gV5i6o= =gmE2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
