Hi, I believe I have isolated the problems.
It was introduced between 1.96+20090725-1, installed on the working machine, and the version installed on this one. It now looks for fonts under /usr. This has multiple undesirable effects. For one, it requires lvm to be present. This makes grub scan the entire system looking for PVs. This causes grub to appear to open a rescue screen and hang. It also makes the boot process significantly slower as it spins up drives that otherwise wouldn't need to be. It is also possible that the difference is attributable to /usr being on an encrypted filesystem on the machine where grub is working. Another problem is that grub has confusion when /boot is on (hd1) and grub is installed on the MBR of (hd0). I had to make the BIOS boot from (hd1) for it to "sort of" work (it spent a long time at a bllank screen before finally going). Eventually I was able to move /boot to (hd0), which fixed the issue. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
