Bug#419766: Grub fails to boot kernel on Dell OptiPlex 320 PCs

2007-06-25 Thread Robert Millan
clone 419766 -1 reassign 419766 grub reassign -1 grub2 retitle -1 accessing xfs from grub is unreliable and may produce cpu faults thanks On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 09:22:13AM -0500, Nate Straz wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 01:49:06AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 09:00:2

Bug#419766: Grub fails to boot kernel on Dell OptiPlex 320 PCs

2007-06-25 Thread Nate Straz
On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 01:49:06AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 09:00:21AM -0500, Nate Straz wrote: > > I dropped into the command line and tried some of the lines by hand. > > > > > #font (hd0,6)/usr/share/grub/unifont.pff > > > > The font load immediately reboots my sys

Bug#419766: Grub fails to boot kernel on Dell OptiPlex 320 PCs

2007-06-23 Thread Robert Millan
reassign 419766 grub-pc thanks On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 09:00:21AM -0500, Nate Straz wrote: > I dropped into the command line and tried some of the lines by hand. > > > #font (hd0,6)/usr/share/grub/unifont.pff > > The font load immediately reboots my system. > > > #set gfxmode=640x480 > > #insmo

Bug#419766: Grub fails to boot kernel on Dell OptiPlex 320 PCs

2007-06-23 Thread Nate Straz
I dropped into the command line and tried some of the lines by hand. > #font (hd0,6)/usr/share/grub/unifont.pff The font load immediately reboots my system. > #set gfxmode=640x480 > #insmod gfxterm > #insmod vbe > #terminal gfxterm These all seemed to work, but without the font loaded, I couldn

Bug#419766: Grub fails to boot kernel on Dell OptiPlex 320 PCs

2007-06-23 Thread Nate Straz
I have a Dell OptiPlex 320n and I did some testing with grub-pc. After installing grub-pc I ran grub-install, which worked, and then rebooted. I was greeted by the grub prompt and was able to load my kernel and initrd and boot the system. So grub-pc does work on the 320. I then ran update-grub

Bug#419766: Grub fails to boot kernel on Dell OptiPlex 320 PCs

2007-05-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 07:40:20AM -0400, William Thompson wrote: > > I would also suggest that you try with GRUB 2 and report if it has the same > > problem. GRUB Legacy is deprecated and we're probably going to replace it > > soon now. > > If it didn't conflict with grub legacy, I would. I loo

Bug#419766: Grub fails to boot kernel on Dell OptiPlex 320 PCs

2007-05-04 Thread William Thompson
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:00:04PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 04:14:46PM -0400, William Thompson wrote: > > > > > > I mean with grub. It's easy to miss-identify a "hang" as just console > > > fuckup, > > > and the point you described is precisely where you would stop s

Bug#419766: Grub fails to boot kernel on Dell OptiPlex 320 PCs

2007-05-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 04:14:46PM -0400, William Thompson wrote: > > > > I mean with grub. It's easy to miss-identify a "hang" as just console > > fuckup, > > and the point you described is precisely where you would stop seeing > > anything > > if it was the latter. > > There was no way I kno

Bug#419766: Grub fails to boot kernel on Dell OptiPlex 320 PCs

2007-05-03 Thread William Thompson
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:02:08PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 01:45:07PM -0400, William Thompson wrote: > > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 07:41:24PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > Have you verified that Linux doesn't really boot, and it's not just your > > > console being cr

Bug#419766: Grub fails to boot kernel on Dell OptiPlex 320 PCs

2007-05-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 01:45:07PM -0400, William Thompson wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 07:41:24PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 04:29:23PM -0400, William Thompson wrote: > > > Package: grub > > > Version: 0.97-27 > > > Severity: important > > > > > > When attempting

Bug#419766: Grub fails to boot kernel on Dell OptiPlex 320 PCs

2007-05-03 Thread William Thompson
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 07:41:24PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 04:29:23PM -0400, William Thompson wrote: > > Package: grub > > Version: 0.97-27 > > Severity: important > > > > When attempting to boot linux on a Dell OptiPlex 320, I get the text screen > > where it tells m

Bug#419766: Grub fails to boot kernel on Dell OptiPlex 320 PCs

2007-05-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 04:29:23PM -0400, William Thompson wrote: > Package: grub > Version: 0.97-27 > Severity: important > > When attempting to boot linux on a Dell OptiPlex 320, I get the text screen > where it tells me what it's booting (menu option), the kernel I'm booting, > and another line

Bug#419766: Grub fails to boot kernel on Dell OptiPlex 320 PCs

2007-04-17 Thread William Thompson
Package: grub Version: 0.97-27 Severity: important When attempting to boot linux on a Dell OptiPlex 320, I get the text screen where it tells me what it's booting (menu option), the kernel I'm booting, and another line that tells me it's linux-bzimage, setup=0x1400, size=0xd9e98 and hangs. It doe