Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 54308
chain-booting with grub breaks APM under 2k, lilo doesn't
Last modified: 2015-01-07 18:51:55 EST
Description of Problem: on my laptop, rh 7.1 (hda5) booted from lilo with windows me on hda2 and win2k from hda3. When lilo chain-boots to the windows loader (where I select between WinME or Win2K) that's on hda2, APM works fantastic inside both. When I ran the RH 7.2 upgrade and switched to grub, APM stopped working in both windows versions but continued to work in Linux. When I did a mv /etc/lilo.conf.anaconda /etc/lilo.conf;lilo to switch back to lilo chaining to the windows loader, APM in windows worked again. This makes me think that something about grub h/w initialization (or, less likely, chain booting method) is what's breaking APM in windows. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): the ver in RH 7.2 final. I'm booted into Win2K at the moment on the laptop :) How Reproducible: 100% NOTE: I know this isn't necessarily a grub problem, but: 1) it'd be nice for grub to act like lilo and not break Win APM 2) it would seem to be a possible entry for the knowledge base
James -- I'm quite frightened, someone else filed the same bug the same day as you :) I might ask you to try some things for me if I can't manage to dig up a laptop around here to throw 2k on to test with. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 54375 ***
Ok, that's cool... I can also let you borrow the laptop if you want (for maybe like a week or two) if that works out better. Either way is fine by me :) Just lemme know if you wanna borrow it, I'll bring it into work and I can give it to you over lunch or whatever (or just hop over Meridian and drop it off)