Bug 141415
| Summary: | interactive grub hangs on probe | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Jack Spaar <jspaar> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Dave Jones <davej> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3 | CC: | pfrields, wtogami |
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2005-07-17 01:13:41 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Do you have a floppy drive? Yes. Your question prompted me to try with a floppy inserted, which works normally. After that, it seems grub re-runs fine whether the floppy is in or not, until the next reboot. An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you. No longer running FC3, problem has not recurred in FC4. |
Running grub interactively hangs with message "Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time." On a box upgraded from FC2->FC3, grub-0.95-3, kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. sudo /sbin/grub 2. 3. Actual Results: "Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time." hangs, unkillable. Expected Results: After less than 30s the grub prompt should be displayed. Additional info: Up until FC3 I've routinely used grub to specify a one-time-only choice for the next reboot, as in this script: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=145115&highlight=bootdos