On Jan 20, 2014, at 10:27 AM, Andrey Borzenkov <[email protected]> wrote:

> В Mon, 20 Jan 2014 09:59:40 -0500
> SevenBits <[email protected]> пишет:
> 
>> On Jan 19, 2014, at 9:23 PM, Andrey Borzenkov <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> В Sun, 19 Jan 2014 19:45:23 -0500
>>> SevenBits <[email protected]> пишет:
>>> 
>>>> Not sure whether to post this in this bug-grub list or here, so feel free 
>>>> to correct me if perhaps this is in the wrong spot. I’m not sure if the 
>>>> issue I’m having is due to a fault in setup or a bug within GRUB.
>>>> 
>>>> I’m the developer of a tool called Mac Linux USB Loader, and some of my 
>>>> users are reporting errors with my compiled copy of GRUB. Specifically, 
>>>> after loading the kernel, GRUB spits out the following error message:
>>>> 
>>>> alloc magic is broken at 0x81493ca0: 207d007d68746170
>>>> Aborted. Press any key to exit.
>>>> 
>>>> The hexadecimal values vary slightly, but generally speaking this is what 
>>>> the error looks like. The kernel loading operation with GRUB’s linux 
>>>> command is followed by the initrd command to load the RAM disc, and that 
>>>> operation never occurs, so I know that the operation never completes.
>>>> 
>>>> This error never seems to occur with Ubuntu-based distributions. It also 
>>>> seems to occur if the kernel can’t be found - but in that case, shouldn’t 
>>>> the linux command fail with an error instead of something like this?
>>>> 
>>>> I can’t post my GRUB config at the moment, as I’m not on the machine where 
>>>> it is stored, but any advice that you can give me without it would be 
>>>> appreciated, such as under what conditions this error occurs.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> — SevenBits
>>> 
>>> Well, the first thing to try would be upstream HEAD to verify whether
>>> problem is still present there.
>> 
>> Sorry, just realized my previous reply didn’t get posted.
>> 
>> The GRUB build I’m using is compiled straight from the current git 
>> repository. It might be a week or two old, but unless something really 
>> changed in the last two to three weeks I don’t think it’ll differ.
>> 
> 
> In this case you need to post to gurb-devel. Is there any way to get
> output to serial console?

No, I don’t think so, unless there’s some GRUB trick that I don’t know about. 
Once this happens GRUB crashes to a stop and I can’t do anything.

> 
>> I can try an older release of GRUB, like the latest stable and see if that 
>> does anything though.

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