Package: grub-pc Version: 1.95+20070626-1 Severity: normal After copying /usr/share/grub/unifont.pff to my /boot partition, I re-ran update-grub and rebooted. The gfxterm terminal didn't appear to start (still 640x480 with white text), and there were no entries in the menu chooser thingy. I pressed c to enter the "bash-like" command mode.
I could enter linux, initrd and boot commands and succeeded in booting (yay for tab completion!). However I noticed that typing a line longer wider than the screen, e.g. linux (hd0,1)/vmlinuz-2.6.21-2-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/Etch-root ro video=radeonfb:1600x1200 caused the system to stop updating the screen. I couldn't see anything I typed appearing, so I tried blindly finishing the command and pressing Enter. Nothing appeared to happen so after a couple of seconds so I rebooted the system and dropped the video= argument, which made the line length short enough to fit, allowing me to boot. -- Package-specific info: *********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 none /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0 none /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0 udev /dev tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/mapper/Etch-root / xfs rw 0 0 /dev/mapper/Etch-root /dev/.static/dev xfs rw 0 0 tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec 0 0 fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0 /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0 fs:/alt/home /home nfs rw,vers=3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,intr,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,addr=fs 0 0 fs:/alt /alt nfs rw,vers=3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,intr,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,addr=fs 0 0 binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0 *********************** END /proc/mounts *********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map (hd0) /dev/hda *********************** END /boot/grub/device.map *********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/grub.cfg # # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE # # It is automaticaly generated by /usr/sbin/update-grub using templates # from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub # ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ### set default=0 set timeout=5 set root=(Etch-root) font (hd0,1)/grub/unifont.pff set gfxmode=1600x1200 insmod gfxterm insmod vbe terminal gfxterm ### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_hurd ### ### END /etc/grub.d/10_hurd ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ### menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.21-2-amd64" { linux (hd0,1)/vmlinuz-2.6.21-2-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/Etch-root ro initrd (hd0,1)/initrd.img-2.6.21-2-amd64 } menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.21-2-amd64 (single-user mode)" { linux (hd0,1)/vmlinuz-2.6.21-2-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/Etch-root ro single initrd (hd0,1)/initrd.img-2.6.21-2-amd64 } menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.21-1-amd64" { linux (hd0,1)/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/Etch-root ro initrd (hd0,1)/initrd.img-2.6.21-1-amd64 } menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.21-1-amd64 (single-user mode)" { linux (hd0,1)/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/Etch-root ro single initrd (hd0,1)/initrd.img-2.6.21-1-amd64 } ### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ### *********************** END /boot/grub/grub.cfg -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages grub-pc depends on: ii libc6 2.5-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii liblzo2-2 2.02-3 data compression library grub-pc recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]