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immediately after using "boot" command
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469585: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=469585
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.96+20080228-1
Severity: important
I seem to be able to install grub-pc correctly on (hd0) (using
"grub-install /dev/sda"), and grub can see all the necessary files in
(hd0,1)/boot/grub/. As soon as I try to boot one of the entries, it
seems to load the linux kernel and initrd, and then immediately
resets as it tries to boot. Trying to manually boot linux with the
command line results in the same. The same thing happens when I try to
chainload another system, or boot memtest86+.
I tried several older versions of grub-pc too, but none have worked.
On other machines I don't seem to have any problems with it.
This machine boots from a SATA disk connected to a PCI add-in card
containing a SATA controller and ethernet card behind a PCI bridge.
Just FYI, here's the lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IGP2 (rev c1)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev c1)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev c1)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev c1)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev c1)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev c1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet Controller
(rev a1)
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce Audio Processing
Unit (rev a2)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio
Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge (rev a3)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): nVidia Corporation nForce2 FireWire (IEEE 1394)
Controller (rev a3)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1)
01:06.0 PCI bridge: Hint Corp HB6 Universal PCI-PCI bridge (non-transparent
mode) (rev 15)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit
Ethernet (rev 10)
02:01.0 Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3512
[SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 01)
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600 GT]
(rev a2)
Thanks,
-- Mourad DC
-- Package-specific info:
*********************** BEGIN
/dev/sda1 / ext3 rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
*********************** END
*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0) /dev/sda
*********************** END /boot/grub/device.map
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.19 Debian configuration management sy
ii grub-common 1.96+20080228-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version
ii libc6 2.7-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii liblzo1 1.08-3 data compression library (old vers
ii libncurses5 5.6+20080203-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
grub-pc recommends no packages.
-- debconf information excluded
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
I pulled the machine back out of storage to test this, and it seems it
has been fixed in the mean time. I tested with 1.98~20100128-1.2 from sid.
I haven't been able to replicate the exact situation because this time I
was running without the PCI SATA controller (this is a PATA-only nforce2
machine). Aside from that caveat, it seems to work pretty much
flawlessly now, so I'm closing this bug.
Thanks,
-- Mourad DC
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