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bug #26875: [grub2] grub-mkrescue causes machine to reboot

Submitter:  Francois-Xavier KOWALSKI <fixkowalski>
Submitted:  Wed 24 Jun 2009 12:18:20 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Booting Severity:  Major
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Software Error
Status:  Invalid Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Originator Name:  Francois-Xavier Kowalski
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  Bazaar - trunk
Release:  1.96 Reproducibility:  Every Time
Planned Release:  None

Fri 16 Oct 2009 08:18:29 AM UTC, comment #2: 

I can see that you have a not USB-attached SD/MMC card reader. Most BIOSes doesn't support booting from it at all or need special layout (like putting floppy image on a FAT). Consult info of your BIOS

Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder>
Group administrator
Fri 14 Aug 2009 08:36:35 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Try with SVN.

Robert Millan <robertmh>
Group administrator
Wed 24 Jun 2009 12:18:20 PM UTC, original submission:  

Hardware:
- HP Mini 1000
- Boot device: USB key or SD-card

Procedure:

% ./configure && make && make install
[...]
% .grub-mkrescue --image-type=floppy rescue.img
[...]
# dd if=`pwd`/rescue.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M
1+1 records in
1+1 records out
1474018 bytes (1.5 MB) copied, 0.179898 s, 8.2 MB/s

Then boot on the SD-card using [F9] key.

The machine starts loads something & reboot (return on BIOS screen).  No error message is visible.

Troubleshooting:

It seems that this always happens when core.img includes an actual memdisk.  Whether the memdisk image is generated by "cpio -o" or "tar -cf" does not change this.

Booting without an included memdisk image (without the -m parameter of grub-mkimage) but with the memdisk, loopback & cpio modules works: It allows to manually examine the memdisk image file content, which is Ok.

Francois-Xavier KOWALSKI <fixkowalski>

 

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        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
        ReleaseNone Bazaar - trunk

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