dhammer Description of problem: Grub Versions greater than grub-0.90-11 hang at boot before loading the splash-screen. After printing out "Loading stage 1.5 (or 2) the whole machine crashes Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): every grub version greater than grub-0.90-11 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: The machine is trying to boot from the master boot record of /dev/hda Every is fine for all grub versions <= grub-0.90-11 even when replacing the old splash-screen image by the new one. Since the first version of "skipjack" booting with grub fails. I had to boot from floppy and then replacing current version of grub by grub-0.90-11 The relevant part of /boot/grub/grub.conf is as follows: default=0 timeout=7 splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-3) root (hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hdb6 hdd=ide-scsi initrd /initrd-2.4.18-3.img title winDoS (bitul zman) rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1
What type of motherboard is this? Is your boot partition beyond the 1024th cylinder, and if so, does your bios properly support lba32?
The machine is a "Fijitsu Siemens" with its own motherboard (e.g. it has no extra specifiation other than F & S, probably it is assambled by them). It is a Pentium 4 (140 MHz) motherboard and has a PhoenixBIOS version 4.06 Rev. 1.05.1194 from Phoenix Technologies Ltd and does (to my knowledge) properly support lba32. The boot partition is /dev/hda2 which starts at cyl.383 and ends at cyl. 385 (24097+ blocks) and is thus not beyond the 1024th cylinder. As I already said: all was fine (since Aug. 2001) befor "skipjack". The machine has a small windoze partition, an OpenBSD disk and also two other Linux partition (Debian, SuSE, not indicated in the grub.conf above) which all run fine on that machine.
Still no response; nothing has changed on this machine; i.e. the problem is still the same (now for "limbo"). On another machine with an ASUS-board the long delay until showing the grub splash screen which occured on "skipjack" and 7.3 is now o.k. for "limbo". Unfortunately the "Fijitsu Siemens" is the main machine and I still have to boot via floppy or grub version =< 0.90-11
This bug has been inappropriately marked MODIFIED. Please review the bug life cycle information at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/bug_status.cgi Changing bug status to ASSIGNED.
Does this work better with grub 0.93 available from http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/grub/?
BS"D Jeremy, what happened, thought this discussion was already gone 'n over? The grub package that I've downloaded from your site http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/grub/ is perfect, and there is nothing left for me to worry about. Great work!
I thought I remembered something, but somehow it dropped out of the database. I'll talk to our bugzilla guru, but glad to hear it's fixed.
Closing based on reporter's comment.