tag 654645 fixed-upstream thanks On 04.01.2012 21:20, Vassilis Virvilis wrote:
Package: grub-common Version: 1.99-14 Severity: normal Tags: d-iDear Maintainer, I have the following setup. * What led up to the situation? A machine with old bios but with a new large and non supported by the bios disk. As a consequence I created a different /boot partition at the start of the disk hoping that the kernel and /boot/grub will be addressable by the bios during boot. Furthermore I wanted to enable enable graphics mode and pass it to the linux kernel later on with the GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep option. grub fails to enter the graphics mode because of loadfont failure. More specifically, in /etc/grub.d/00_header one can find: if loadfont `make_system_path_relative_to_its_root "${GRUB_FONT_PATH}"` ; then set gfxmode=${GRUB_GFXMODE} load_video insmod gfxterm in /boot/grub/grub.cfg the above fragment becomes: if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then set gfxmode=1280x1024 load_video insmod gfxterm However /usr/share/grub resides on the / partition and it is inacessible by the BIOS. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? I changed by hand /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 to /boot/grug/unicode.pf2 in /boot/grub/grub.cfg and I copied the file there. * What was the outcome of this action? It boots fine now and it enters graphics mode - but I have to do that manually every time I upgrade grub-common * What outcome did you expect instead? I would prefer the contents of /usr/share/grub/ to be placed in /boot/grub. The disk space required is about 12MB. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=el_GR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=el_GR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages grub-common depends on: ii gettext-base 0.18.1.1-5 ii libc6 2.13-24 ii libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.67-2 ii libfreetype6 2.4.8-1 ii libfuse2 2.8.6-4 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 Versions of packages grub-common recommends: ii os-prober 1.49 Versions of packages grub-common suggests: pn desktop-base 6.0.7 pn grub-emu<none> pn multiboot-doc<none> pn xorriso<none> -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ Pkg-grub-devel mailing list pkg-grub-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grub-devel
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