Bug 164864
Summary: | grub segmentation faults during setup (hd0) | ||||||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Jed Donnelley <bugzilla> | ||||
Component: | grub | Assignee: | Peter Jones <pjones> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> | ||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||
Version: | 4.0 | CC: | bmr, seppi, shillman | ||||
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Hardware: | i686 | ||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||
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Fixed In Version: | rhel4u7 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||
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Last Closed: | 2008-07-25 15:57:59 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Jed Donnelley
2005-08-02 00:40:38 UTC
I have seen this using RHEL AS 4 x86 and x86-64/amd64 cd's to install on 40Gb IDE Disk, 36Gb SCSI, 73Gb SCSI, and RAID-0 and RAID-1 FIBRE, so I do not see it being related to the drive size or dasd type. There have been some instances where initially grub will work, and then after 1 or more reboots it then begins to seg-fault. I'll include an strace - hopefully that will help Created attachment 118250 [details]
strace of grub failure
x86 installation of RHEL 4 AS on an amd64 machine using fibre storage
This can be worked around by booting with the parameter: noexec=off thus switching off the segmentation fault, when GRUB for whatever reason executes code on the stack. 100% reproducible on Dell Optiplex GX620s. Using BIOS 'combined' mode to access SATA hard disks. Have some spare time with these systems this week, so I'll try to get more information on where grub is falling over. This has been tested on rhel4u7 following the directions in the report and no segfault was encountered. Please try rhel4u7 and reopen this bug if you encounter the problem again. |