Bug 61069

Summary: grub can't run memtest86 if slashimage is used
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Jim Radford <radford>
Component: grubAssignee: Peter Jones <pjones>
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Description Jim Radford 2002-03-12 23:34:08 UTC
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Description of problem:
grub hangs when I try and run:

  splashimage=<whatever the default is>
  kernel=(hd0,1)/boot/memtest86.bin
  boot

but if I take out the splashimage it works.

How reproducible:
Always

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-03-13 05:20:15 UTC
Seems to work for me, but I'm using a slightly newer version of grub.  If you
try the package at http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/grub/ does it work better?

Comment 2 Jim Radford 2002-03-18 19:34:14 UTC
I tested this a bit more including with your newest grub.  It works all the time
if run from the config file, but only without the splashimage if I run from the
command line.



Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2002-12-29 07:01:09 UTC
The terminal type wasn't being reset to a console when going to boot from the
command line.  The Linux kernel works around this and restores state correctly,
but memtest86 doesn't.  I've added a patch to grub-0.93-2 which fixes this.

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2006-08-04 20:06:39 UTC
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