Re: last update / upgrade killed grub ...Attention !
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:53:28 +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote:
> Confirmed here. I cannot reinstall grub (okay, I can, from grub-floppy;
> and it tells me 'success'. But when I reboot, the grub menu doesn't come
> up; but the kernel is loaded immediately.)
> I also notice that the screen is almost unreadable; the characters
> completely distorted; some vertical dotted lines are visible; the
> characters like 'smear' all over the screen.
> No, hold your breath; when X starts everything is fine and okay.
> It's getting even stranger: when I boot from grub-floppy, the same
> kernel; same commands, everything is fine; the characters are normally
> visible while the lines of the boot screen flush by.
Finally found the culprit:
grub is broken on the kernel-updater when a splashimage is included.
In short: grub's update writes an extra (duplicate) splashimage line above
the latest kernel, which can mess up the display and prevent the menu
from being displayed.
When you run into this, just remove the splashimage-line from above the
latest kernel within the 'restricted area' of menu.lst.
Details:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=318706
Uwe
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