The following is from an email sent to me. I'm quoting it verbatim with the permission of it's author. It seems that this problem is more pervasive than affecting only Ubuntu and only HP machines:
------------- Dustin, I found your bug on the Ubuntu tracker (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+bug/220336) and wanted to add some additional info. I don't have an account nor do I use Ubuntu but I thought this might be helpful to add to the bug report as the console redirection issue is a far older and wider one than Ubuntu on recent HP hardware. Hope it helps someone figure out how to fix it because it drives me crazy: http://www.ghidinelli.com/2006/11/06/configuring-console-access-for- linuxcentos/ In short, I've experienced this on RHEL4 and 5 (in actuality, CentOS 4/5) on various VA Linux hardware from ~2000 but the interesting thing is that it works some of the time and not others, all with identical grub/terminal configurations. Hopefully the bug gets some attention because it's hugely inconvenient... it hard locks the system and requires a power-button reset to reboot. Brian Ghidinelli ------------- -- grub failing load stage 2 when serial console --stop=[1|2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/220336 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
