On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 07:50:56PM -0500, David A. Greene wrote: >Package: grub-pc >Version: 1.98+20100804-2 >Severity: critical >Tags: d-i >Justification: breaks the whole system > >This problem originally happened when upgrading an old Squeeze installation. >I do not know how long the problem has existed. Doing a fresh install from the >very latest testing images does not solve the problem. > >On an Acer Aspire One AO751h, GRUB fails to boot. It hangs at "Welcome to >GRUB!" >and a Ctl-Alt-Del does not reboot the machine. I have tried multiple >installation >methods and partitioning schemes with no luck.
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 10:38:03AM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 03:29:43PM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: >>Not sure what else, besides the subject, would be of use for debugging. >> >>I did follow Nuutti Kotivuori's <na...@iki.fi> suggestion of uncommenting: >> >>#GRUB_TERMINAL=console >> >>in /etc/default/grub >> >>reran update-grub2 >> >>and was able to boot into the system. Let me know what else I can do >>to help debug this. > >I'm seeing the same problem on an Acer 0751H machine as well, on a >fresh squeeze installation. I used to have (and rely on) a graphical >grub to set up the right graphics mode on this Poulsbo machine, but >that was from quite a while back using an Ubuntu-based system. > >I'll start bisecting now to see where this came in. OK, done. I'm cc:ing all the people who have added comments on the bug too, for information. On the Acer 0751H here, I've walked through the versions of grub-pc available on snapshot.debian.org to see where things broke. The answer is that the break happened between 20100617-1 and 20100702-1. Using the text console workaround will let you use grub as-is, but if you want graphical goodness too (and the smarts to make the Poulsbo chipset work at a proper resolution), then download and install the following older versions for now: http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20100619T041712Z/pool/main/g/grub2/grub-common_1.98%2B20100617-1_i386.deb http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20100619T041712Z/pool/main/g/grub2/grub-pc_1.98%2B20100617-1_i386.deb and you should be fine. You'll need to mark those packages as "held" to stop apt(itude) upgrading beyond them as well, of course. I hope that's helpful for people. :-) Now, looking at the changes from 20100617-1 to 20100702-1. There's a big obvious candidate for the issue we're seeing: * New Bazaar snapshot. - Use video functions in Linux loader rather than hardcoding UGA; load all available video backends (closes: #565576, probably). I'm not sure exactly what changed in there and I don't have time right now to dig much further, but it's worth sharing where I got to. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whether they're being malicious or incompetent. Capital letters are forecast." Matthew Garrett, http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/30675.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
