Bug 60862

Summary: grub breaks APM when booting windows
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Bill Kilgallon <fromrhbug>
Component: grubAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
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Description Bill Kilgallon 2002-03-07 23:46:11 UTC
Description of Problem:
When I allow grub to boot my windows partition (both 98se2 and me) apm 
support is then broken in windows.  Switching back to lilo and allowing it 
to boot the windows partition, apm then works.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
grub-0.90-11

How Reproducible:
100% reproducible on my thinkpad 570

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Additional Information:
At one point after windows trashed my mbr, and I had rebooted my linux 
partition with the recovery disk, I restored the MBR with lilo out of force 
of habit.  Once I rebooted and noticed the graphical eye candy was gone, I 
went back into my linux partition and reinstalled grub.  At that point, I 
probably putzed with the config file a little, but not much, and reinstalled 
grub.  I am not sure if this same problem happens with the normal installed 
image, or if it happens on lots of platforms, but it happens like clockwork 
on mine.  Doing a google search shows one minor reference to it from a grub 
developer, and suggests finding a "newer version of grub".  My newer version 
of grub will be lilo until I hear otherwise, this wasted a BUNCH of my time 
(whoda thunk of looking at my linux setup to understand why my Windows setup 
broke... its usually the other way around :( ).

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-03-07 23:51:03 UTC
It's fixed in GRUB CVS and our current packages have the fix included.  Updated
packages with the fix can be found at http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/grub/



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 54375 ***