Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 426635
Grub fails to boot when hide/unhide commands present
Last modified: 2009-01-09 00:35:56 EST
Description of problem: In multi OS environment where two or more Windows installations have to be able to boot, hiding of the partition not being booted and unhiding the partition being booted both causes grub to fail to chainload the windows boot manager. The problem seems to be "stable" as many users have reported the problem in various fora. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Grub 0.97-19.i386 How reproducible: Happens aall the time! Steps to Reproduce: 1. insert a hide or unhide command in grub.conf file 2. try to boot a section containing the hide or unhide command 3. Boot fails with with error Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: It has been reported that the FC7 package works under FC8. Should be promoted for FC8 until problem solved.
This is duplicate of bug #384141.
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