Bug 54375 – grub appears to prevent APM working for Win2K

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Bug 54375 - grub appears to prevent APM working for Win2K

Summary:	grub appears to prevent APM working for Win2K

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Public Beta
Classification:	Retired
Component:	grub (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	roswell
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity high
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Assigned To:	Jeremy Katz
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Duplicates:	54308 55224 55921 60862 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2001-10-04 22:58 EDT by Dave Goldblatt
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:38 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2001-10-30 05:50:44 EST
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Description Dave Goldblatt 2001-10-04 22:58:39 EDT

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Description of problem:
After installing Roswell on a Dell Inspiron 7000 (BIOS A15) I noticed when
booting into Windows 2000 SP2 that the APM functionality no longer appeared
under Win2K; specifically battery monitoring (on AC power/battery, battery
life) and suspend to memory or disk.


Removing grub and replacing with System Commander restored the APM
functionality to Win2K.  Microsoft's apmstat program indicated a corrupted
APM BIOS when booting under Grub; after removing Grub the utility indicated
no problems.

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Boot an Inspiron 7000 (BIOS A15) under Grub.

Actual Results:  APM unusable.

Expected Results:  APM should not be affected by booting Win2K from Grub.

Additional info:

Dell Inspiron 7000, Pentium II 366, A15 BIOS.  Linux APM functions
correctly when booting under Grub.  Filed as high since a laptop which will
not suspend is a very _hot_ laptop after some time in a case; could result
in system damage.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2001-10-11 17:24:53 EDT

*** Bug 54308 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2001-10-21 19:54:22 EDT

I'll see what I can do about tracking this one down -- for clarification, you
are putting GRUB in the MBR, correct?

Comment 3 Dave Goldblatt 2001-10-21 20:54:24 EDT

Correct, GRUB was in the MBR.

Comment 4 Jeremy Katz 2001-10-26 22:32:35 EDT

Can you try the updated grub package at
http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/RPMS/grub-0.90-12.i386.rpm and see if it fixes
the problem?

Comment 5 Jeremy Katz 2001-10-26 22:33:53 EDT

(Note that you will need to install the package and then run `/sbin/grub-install
/dev/foo` to get the updated images installed into the MBR)

Comment 6 Jeremy Katz 2001-10-27 13:41:51 EDT

*** Bug 55224 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Jeremy Katz 2001-10-27 13:43:50 EDT

*** Bug 55224 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Dave Goldblatt 2001-10-27 22:25:31 EDT

Works like a charm.  Ship it. :-)

Comment 9 Julio Sanchez Fernandez 2001-10-30 05:50:40 EST

It also fixed my complete inability to boot my NT from grub.

/sbin/grub-install, however, broke everything.  I added a few sleep's in it as suggested in grub-bug, though it seems the definitive solution to the problem those sleeps 
fixes is unclear...

Comment 10 Jeremy Katz 2001-10-31 17:33:36 EST

I've added some syncs to grub-0.90-13 (which will be building and going to the
same place in a few minutes probably) using Erich's patch off of the GRUB
mailing list until a better way of making sure the data is flushed to the disk
is determined.

Comment 11 Jeremy Katz 2001-11-08 14:59:20 EST

*** Bug 55921 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12 Jonathan Larmour 2002-02-05 20:25:52 EST

Any reason the updated RPM hasn't made it to RHN? Seems like it's been a
while...

Comment 13 Jeremy Katz 2002-03-07 18:50:59 EST

*** Bug 60862 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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