From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 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
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?
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.
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.
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