GNU GRUB - Bugs: bug #29464, util/i386/pc/grub-setup: fails to...
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bug #29464: util/i386/pc/grub-setup: fails to write Buggy BIOS boot-sector drive-number detection in boot.img
Submitter: | TJ <intuitivenipple> | ||
Submitted: | Wed 07 Apr 2010 09:38:10 PM UTC | ||
Category: | Installation | Severity: | Major |
Priority: | 5 - Normal | Item Group: | Software Error |
Status: | Fixed | Privacy: | Public |
Assigned to: | None | Originator Name: | |
Open/Closed: | Closed | Release: | 1.98 |
Release: | Reproducibility: | Every Time | |
Planned Release: | None |
Wed 15 Sep 2010 01:31:19 PM UTC, comment #4: |
Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder> |
Thu 08 Apr 2010 05:02:47 PM UTC, comment #3: I think this patch should work a bit more neatly; it confines the mess to util/hostdisk.c and makes it emulate biosdisk more accurately. |
Colin Watson <cjwatson> |
Thu 08 Apr 2010 02:39:11 AM UTC, comment #2: After adding several debugging fprintf statements the reason for this problem seems to become clear. grub-setup calls grub_disk_open() which in turn calls an open() function via an array of pointers. Here's the source-code peppered with my debug print statements from kern/disk.c::grub_disk_open():
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TJ <intuitivenipple> |
Wed 07 Apr 2010 10:04:11 PM UTC, comment #1: * IMPORTANT *
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TJ <intuitivenipple> |
Wed 07 Apr 2010 09:38:10 PM UTC, original submission:
I've been investigating why, on Acer Travelmate C100 tablet PCs, grub2 fails to boot, reporting:
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TJ <intuitivenipple> |
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Date | Changed by | Updated Field | Previous Value | => | Replaced by |
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2010-09-15 | phcoder | Open/Closed | Open | Closed | |
2010-09-15 | phcoder | Status | None | Fixed | |
2010-04-08 | cjwatson | Attached File | - | Added hostdisk-hd.diff, #20162 |
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