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bug #28770: grub2 fails to boot from pmon if 'args' is empty.

Submitted by:  Karl Goetz <kgoetz>
Submitted on:  Sat 30 Jan 2010 12:28:09 AM UTC  
 
Category: BootingSeverity: Major
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: None
Status: InvalidPrivacy: Public
Assigned to: NoneOriginator Name: 
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: 
Release: otherReproducibility: Every Time
Planned Release: None

Sun 14 Mar 2010 12:43:44 PM UTC, comment #4:

From what I'm told, this is a pmon issue affecting all releases before 1.4.3.
If grub is booted via boot.conf on a system with a pmon version before 1.4.3 it needs args to contain something (anything) in order to successfully boot. Since this seems to be a pmon bug, unless its something that grub should work around, i guess this could be closed.

Karl Goetz <kgoetz>
Sun 14 Mar 2010 03:40:17 AM UTC, comment #3:

Sorry about the late reply - somehow i missed it.
my Version = LM8089-1.3.6
his version = LM8089-1.4.3

Karl Goetz <kgoetz>
Tue 09 Feb 2010 12:59:40 PM UTC, comment #2:

Can you compare pmon versions? GRUB ignores args altogether

Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder>
Project Administrator
Sat 30 Jan 2010 12:42:27 AM UTC, comment #1:

I've just had feedback from someone else with a yeeloong. They say grub loads using this grub config:
default 0
timeout 0
showmenu 0
title Boot with GRUB
kernel (wd0,0)/boot/grub.elf

His grub version is the same.

Guess there is something else involved too.

Karl Goetz <kgoetz>
Sat 30 Jan 2010 12:28:09 AM UTC, original submission:

This has some extra background info https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?28759 in comments #2,3,4.

If using a pmon /boot/boot.cfg as follows, grub boots:

default 0
timeout 0
showmenu 0
title Boot with GRUB
kernel (wd0,0)/boot/grub.elf
args some-dummy-string

If your args line matches either of these, grub fails:
args (no params
(totally blank)

apt-cache policy grub-yeeloong
grub-yeeloong:
Installed: 1.98~20091212-2
Candidate: 1.98~20091212-2
Version table:

      • 1.98~20091212-2 0

Note on reproducibility: its every time, on the same machine. I'll post a comment when I can get feedback from someone else.

Karl Goetz <kgoetz>

 

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