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bug #27720: Weird BIOS keeps GRUB from booting correctly

Submitter:  Daniel Mierswa <impulze>
Submitted:  Fri 16 Oct 2009 01:33:33 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Booting Severity:  Major
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  None
Status:  Fixed Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Originator Name: 
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  Bazaar - trunk
Release:  Reproducibility:  Every Time
Planned Release:  None

Sat 16 Oct 2010 10:47:12 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Documented in grub.texi

Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder>
Group administrator
Fri 27 Aug 2010 01:49:15 AM UTC, comment #1: 

r2630 on trunk "fixed" it, though the loop device trick mentioned at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-09/msg00488.html needs to be applied. It'll most likely be commented at a more central place and probably be integrated into grub-mkrescue.

Daniel Mierswa <impulze>
Fri 16 Oct 2009 01:33:33 PM UTC, original submission:  

As already mentioned on the user mailinglist:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-grub/2008-11/msg00011.html
and on the devel mailinglist:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-09/msg00486.html
my BIOS makes a crappy attempt to be smart and fails to boot GRUB properly. I had to use a hack (explained by phcoder) to make it find GRUB on my primary partition by putting it in a loop device and install grub on that loop device. However that only works for that crappy BIOS so I was told to install GRUB into the MBR also, so that I can use it on sane systems. However after doing that, it gets stuck on printing "GRUB " again on my laptop. Now I was told to open a bug here, so consider it done. :)

Daniel Mierswa <impulze>

 

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