On 22.02.2010 14:47, Alexander Joelly wrote:
> after installing lenny or squeeze machines cannot boot, grub2 stops at 
> "Welcome to GRUB2!" message, do a permanent reboot loop or hang when showing 
> the boot menu;
> booting from the netinst into rescue mode and tried something but nothing 
> other then deinstalling grub2 and installing grub-legacy helps;
> with grub-legacy all machines boot is fine, our systems are inteservers with 
> sh3210-series mainboards and areca or 3ware hardware raid-controllers;
> since the option to install grub-legacy on debian lenny is no longer 
> availiable, installing debian 'stable' is no longer possible;
> i recommend to bring back the option into the debian-installer that 
> grub-legacy can be installed instead grub2 or completely remove grub2 from 
> lenny because it seems not to be 'stable';
>
>   
This sounds a lot like the MBR gap corruption we found with HighPoint
controller. Could you test the latest upstream?



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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko


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