On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 07:50:56PM -0500, David A. Greene wrote:
Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.98+20100804-2
Severity: critical
Tags: d-i
Justification: breaks the whole system
This problem originally happened when upgrading an old Squeeze installation.
I do not know how long the problem has existed. Doing a fresh install from the
very latest testing images does not solve the problem.
On an Acer Aspire One AO751h, GRUB fails to boot. It hangs at Welcome to
GRUB!
and a Ctl-Alt-Del does not reboot the machine. I have tried multiple
installation
methods and partitioning schemes with no luck.
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 10:38:03AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 03:29:43PM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
Not sure what else, besides the subject, would be of use for debugging.
I did follow Nuutti Kotivuori's na...@iki.fi suggestion of uncommenting:
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console
in /etc/default/grub
reran update-grub2
and was able to boot into the system. Let me know what else I can do
to help debug this.
I'm seeing the same problem on an Acer 0751H machine as well, on a
fresh squeeze installation. I used to have (and rely on) a graphical
grub to set up the right graphics mode on this Poulsbo machine, but
that was from quite a while back using an Ubuntu-based system.
I'll start bisecting now to see where this came in.
OK, done. I'm cc:ing all the people who have added comments on the bug
too, for information.
On the Acer 0751H here, I've walked through the versions of grub-pc
available on snapshot.debian.org to see where things broke. The answer
is that the break happened between 20100617-1 and 20100702-1. Using
the text console workaround will let you use grub as-is, but if you
want graphical goodness too (and the smarts to make the Poulsbo
chipset work at a proper resolution), then download and install the
following older versions for now:
http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20100619T041712Z/pool/main/g/grub2/grub-common_1.98%2B20100617-1_i386.deb
http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20100619T041712Z/pool/main/g/grub2/grub-pc_1.98%2B20100617-1_i386.deb
and you should be fine. You'll need to mark those packages as held
to stop apt(itude) upgrading beyond them as well, of course. I hope
that's helpful for people. :-)
Now, looking at the changes from 20100617-1 to 20100702-1. There's a
big obvious candidate for the issue we're seeing:
* New Bazaar snapshot.
- Use video functions in Linux loader rather than hardcoding UGA; load
all available video backends (closes: #565576, probably).
I'm not sure exactly what changed in there and I don't have time right
now to dig much further, but it's worth sharing where I got to.
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