http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9108 <pre>URL: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36532&gt; Summary: boot in EFI mode (x86_64) fails on some systems Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: stuart_hayes Submitted on: Wed 23 May 2012 07:33:10 PM GMT Category: Booting Severity: Major Priority: 5 - Normal Item Group: Software Error Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Originator Name: stuart_hayes Originator Email: stuart_hayes&lt; at &gt;dell.com Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Release: Release: other Reproducibility: Every Time Planned Release: None _______________________________________________________ Details: Grub v 1.99 is failing to boot on certain systems in EFI mode. This was discovered on some Dell 12G server systems (the PowerEdge R720, for example), using Ubuntu 12.04, but the issue was reproduced with vanilla grub 1.99. Some systems will boot under certain circumstances (I have one R720 that will boot if I hit "F11" to go into a UEFI boot menu and then boot, but not if the system tries to boot with no manual intervention), other systems will not boot at all. The problem is that grub2 is failing to get the EFI memory map in grub-core/loader/i386/linux.c, when it calls grub_efi_finish_boot_services(), because the buffer it allocated for the EFI memory map earlier in allocate_pages() (in the same file) is not big enough. (The EFI memory map has grown considerably--like 50000 bytes or so--between the time that the efi_mmap_buf was set up in allocate_pages() and the time it is used in grub_efi_finish_boot_services()). When allocate_pages() runs, it really has no way to know how large the EFI memory map will be when it needs that buffer. Also, the EFI memory map does not need to be at an address under 1MB, either. I've made a patch that modifies allocate_pages() so that it no longer allocates a buffer for the EFI memory map. Instead, the buffer is allocated right before the call to grub_efi_finish_boot_services() in grub-linux_boot(), and it tries to put it at the top of memory (or just below the initrd, if one is loaded). I have verified that this fixes the issue on my systems. I'm attaching the patch. _______________________________________________________ File Attachments: ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed 23 May 2012 07:33:10 PM GMT Name: grub-1.99-upstream_efimm_late_malloc_3.patch Size: 6kB By: stuart_hayes patch to allocate EFI mmap buffer later &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=25912&gt; _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36532&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> stuart hayes 2012-05-23T19:33:11 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9106 <pre>URL: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36525&gt; Summary: Update overwrites /etc/default/grub Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: chiel92 Submitted on: Tue 22 May 2012 04:24:41 PM GMT Category: None Severity: Major Priority: 5 - Normal Item Group: None Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Originator Name: Originator Email: Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Release: Release: other Reproducibility: Once Planned Release: None _______________________________________________________ Details: Normal priority. Today I ran an apt-get update on Ubuntu 12.04 and I noticed the file /etc/default/grub was overwritten, so I lost all my tweaks. This update involved a kernel update, which probably caused this problem. I noticed that there are other people experiencing the same problem. The grub version I use is: grub-install (GRUB) 1.99-21ubuntu3 Sorry, I don't know which value in the release field corresponds to this version. The OS I use is: Ubuntu 12.04 precise pangolin _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36525&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Chiel 2012-05-22T16:24:42 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9105 <pre>URL: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36522&gt; Summary: wrong fonts for starfield theme - bold is missing Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: kiilerix Submitted on: Tue 22 May 2012 13:17:43 GMT Category: None Severity: Major Priority: 5 - Normal Item Group: None Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Originator Name: Originator Email: Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Release: Release: Bazaar - trunk Reproducibility: None Planned Release: None _______________________________________________________ Details: I can't repopen https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?36446 so I file this instead: Multiple font files will now be installed - http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/grub/trunk/grub/annotate/4343/Makefile.am#L72 . It will however only install non-bold fonts. The theme also uses some bold fonts - http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/grub/trunk/grub/annotate/4343/themes/starfield/theme.txt#L51 . _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36522&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Mads Kiilerich 2012-05-22T13:17:43 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9101 <pre>URL: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36509&gt; Summary: Repository Contains Malformed Commits Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: kphillis Submitted on: Sun 20 May 2012 09:52:29 PM GMT Category: None Severity: Major Priority: 5 - Normal Item Group: Action Request Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Originator Name: Originator Email: Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Release: Release: Bazaar - trunk Reproducibility: Every Time Planned Release: None _______________________________________________________ Details: When attempting to perform a fast export of the grub bazaar tree to a git repository, I found a few errors within the source repository. These errors are commits that have been tagged with an empty Author. The exact commits are Revision 3144 that was commited on March 30th, 2011, and Revision 2266 that was posted on March 24th, 2010. These can be confirmed by doing a quick grep of the bazaar log using the following command: bzr log | grep author\:\ $ -a4 as for the Fix, Change the log entry to remove the empty author field, and then the bazaar repository can easily be exported to other repository software. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36509&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Kenney Phillis 2012-05-20T21:52:29 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9086 <pre>URL: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36490&gt; Summary: grub-probe doesn't work with fat32 file systems Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: gutworth Submitted on: Fri 18 May 2012 04:13:43 AM GMT Category: Filesystem Severity: Major Priority: 5 - Normal Item Group: None Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Originator Name: Originator Email: Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Release: Release: Bazaar - trunk Reproducibility: Every Time Planned Release: None _______________________________________________________ Details: /boot/efi is a With latest bzr: $ grub-probe -t fs /boot/efi grub-probe: error: unknown filesystem grub-probe from Ubuntu correclty identifies it. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36490&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Benjamin Peterson 2012-05-18T04:13:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9085 <pre>URL: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36489&gt; Summary: Countdown not show for GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT on gfxterm output. Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: jordanu Submitted on: Fri 18 May 2012 01:00:58 AM GMT Category: None Severity: Major Priority: 5 - Normal Item Group: None Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Originator Name: Originator Email: Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Release: Release: Bazaar - trunk Reproducibility: Every Time Planned Release: None _______________________________________________________ Details: Due to the way that gfxterm is implemented (I believe) "sleep --verbose" isn't actually verbose at all when viewed via gfxterm. This means that using a standard grub-mkconfig generated grub.cfg with GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=10 and GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=false there is no indication to the user that grub has started and is counting down while waiting for input to show the grub menu, they will simply see a completely black screen for ten seconds. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36489&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Jordan Uggla 2012-05-18T01:00:59 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9081 <pre>Root issue: grub ignore protective GPT record if that record is not the first one in MBR. Need to correct: If protective GPT record appears on any place in MBR - grub must consider system as GPT. My system is Ubuntu and package I using is grub-pc 1.99-21ubuntu3. I trust that my error is not distributive specific I have hybrid GPT/MBR. Hybrid MBR contains protective record 0xEE but that record is NOT first. Here is output of gdisk (hybrid MBR): Number Boot Start Sector End Sector Status Code 1 468992 101480447 primary 0x07 2 234375168 234569727 primary 0xEF 3 * 550782882 574927413 primary 0x83 4 1 468991 primary 0xEE gdisk (GPT): Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 2048 206847 100.0 MiB EF00 EFI system partition 2 206848 468991 128.0 MiB 0C01 Microsoft reserved part 3 468992 101480447 48.2 GiB 0700 win7 4 101480448 138344447 17.6 GiB AF00 other 5 390625280 527343615 65.2 GiB 8301 copyfilesWIN7 6 527343616 550780927 11.2 GiB AF00 backupfile 7 581042176 625141759 21.0 GiB 2700 Samsung_diag 8 138344448 234375167 45.8 GiB 0700 DATA 11 574927414 581042175 2.9 GiB 8200 12 234375168 234569727 95.0 MiB EF02 grub 13 550782882 574927413 11.5 GiB 0700 linux After that it result in such errors: root&lt; at &gt;helena:~# grub-install /dev/sda /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: This msdos-style partition label has no post-MBR gap; embedding won't be possible!. /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged.. /usr/sbin/grub-setup: error: will not proceed with blocklists. invoking grub-mkconfig manually gives: root&lt; at &gt;helena:~# grub-mkconfig -o test.conf Generating grub.cfg ... Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-24-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-24-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-19-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-19-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-14-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-14-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda4. Check your device.map. grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda5. Check your device.map. grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda6. Check your device.map. grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda7. Check your device.map. done I have tried diferent approach - was removed hybrid MBR (retained only protective record). After that grub-install succeed. After that I have created hybrid MBR (the same as above). But after reboot I have got "grub rescue" prompt and error: no such partition. </pre> Stanislav Davydov 2012-05-11T15:24:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9080 <pre>Hi all, I was asked to report the failure of grup to be upgraded here. What follows is the output of "/usr/sbin/grub-probe --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map --target=fs -v /boot/grub": build5:~# /usr/sbin/grub-probe --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map --target=fs -v /boot/grub &gt;/tmp/grub-failure.txt /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: Cannot stat `/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3300831AS_3NF0GST8', skipping. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: Cannot stat `/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3300831AS_3NF0H7L9', skipping. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to /dev. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to dri. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to snd. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to net. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to shm. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: opening md0. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: no such disk. I should probably mention that there was a problem during the upgrade. This machine runs entirely on a software RAID1 (no boot partition, and root is mounted on /dev/md0). During the upgrade to squeeze, mdadm found that the device ID for md0 had changed. I updated the /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf file, but forgot to run update-initramfs, and then subsequent boots failed until I booted into rescue mode and ran the command from the rescue shell. The system now boots, using the chainloader. However, during the boot process I also get error messages that some information could not be read from the drives. Detailed log files are available if needed. </pre> Wolfgang Schulze-Zachau 2012-05-10T13:22:38 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9077 <pre>URL: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36446&gt; Summary: wrong fonts for starfield theme Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: kiilerix Submitted on: Thu 10 May 2012 10:09:03 GMT Category: None Severity: Major Priority: 5 - Normal Item Group: None Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Originator Name: Originator Email: Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Release: Release: Bazaar - trunk Reproducibility: None Planned Release: None _______________________________________________________ Details: The build system will create dejavu.pf2 with no special mkfont options and it will thus be 16 point only. The starfield theme do however use other fonts. As a work around I used something like rm dejavu.pf2 grub-mkfont -o DejaVuSans-10.pf2 -s 10 /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf # "DejaVu Sans Regular 10" grub-mkfont -o DejaVuSans-12.pf2 -s 12 /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf # "DejaVu Sans Regular 12" grub-mkfont -o DejaVuSans-Bold-14.pf2 -s 14 /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf # "DejaVu Sans Bold 14" - but the theme installation is very hardcoded in the build system. Slightly related: It would be nice if mkfont showed exactly which "font name" it created. It would be nice if mkfont didn't create empty pf2 files when no font source is specified. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36446&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Mads Kiilerich 2012-05-10T10:09:03 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9074 <pre>URL: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36433&gt; Summary: Leading spaces after '\' line continuation cause syntax error Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: jordanu Submitted on: Tue 08 May 2012 08:43:50 AM GMT Category: None Severity: Major Priority: 5 - Normal Item Group: Software Error Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Originator Name: Originator Email: Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Release: Release: Bazaar - trunk Reproducibility: Every Time Planned Release: None _______________________________________________________ Details: The following code causes a syntax error in grub but is completely valid and causes no problems in bash: echo \ test Note the space before "test". With a file test.cfg containing the above two lines I can run "bash test.cfg" and it will simply print "test\n" as expected but when I run "grub-script-check test.cfg" I get the following output: error: out of memory. error: syntax error. Syntax error at line 2 I ran into this bug while trying to get bvk's autoiso.cfg working for Super GRUB2 Disk. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36433&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Jordan Uggla 2012-05-08T08:43:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9073 <pre>URL: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36404&gt; Summary: Colons in environment variable identifiers are unreadable Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: christrenkamp Submitted on: Sat 05 May 2012 01:49:54 AM GMT Category: Terminal Severity: Major Priority: 5 - Normal Item Group: Software Error Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Originator Name: Originator Email: Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Release: Release: Bazaar - trunk Reproducibility: Every Time Planned Release: None _______________________________________________________ Details: If an environment variable has a colon in its identifier, it will be inaccessible when attempting to read it. For example, after the user runs 'net_bootp', the environment variable 'net_pxe:dhcp_boot_file' will be set. If the user attempts to read it with echo '${net_pxe:dhcp_boot_file}', the command will return these errors: error: $. error: syntax error. error: Incorrect command. error: syntax error. I've tried various ways to read these variable, but can't find one that works. I know these variables were meant to be read-only, which is probably why there's a colon in the identifier, but it would be extremely useful to be able to read them. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36404&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Chris Trenkamp 2012-05-05T01:49:55 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9071 <pre> Hi I tryed to install grub but i get this error message: --- root&lt; at &gt;morgul:~# grub-install /dev/sdg /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: no such disk. Auto-detection of a filesystem of /dev/md1 failed. Please report this together with the output of "/usr/sbin/grub-probe --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map --target=fs -v /boot/grub" to &lt;bug-grub&lt; at &gt;gnu.org&gt; root&lt; at &gt;morgul:~# /usr/sbin/grub-probe --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map --target=fs -v /boot/grub /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: Cannot stat `/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD3200AAJS-00B4A0_WD-WMAT15012811', skipping. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: Cannot stat `/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD3200AAJS-00B4A0_WD-WMAT15009217', skipping. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to /dev. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to space. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to dri. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to snd. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to net. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to shm. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to mapper. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: opening md/1. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: no such disk. root&lt; at &gt;morgul:~# --- The operating system is a Debian Squeeze. Have a nice day. </pre> Jose Manuel Ferrer Mosteiro 2012-05-04T10:26:14 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9068 <pre>hi there ,   maybe you can help me - updated ubuntu to 11.10 version , have installed xp too , bootloader does not   find xp - in other words , its not in listed in boot menue anymore   what can i do to resolve ?   regards   martin k, böblingen _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub&lt; at &gt;gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub </pre> mkaiser-bb< at >freenet.de 2012-04-30T07:49:16 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9067 <pre>URL: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36340&gt; Summary: 'make html' fails Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: kiilerix Submitted on: Sun 29 Apr 2012 10:49:36 PM GMT Category: Installation Severity: Major Priority: 5 - Normal Item Group: Software Error Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Originator Name: Originator Email: Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Release: Release: Bazaar - trunk Reproducibility: None Planned Release: None _______________________________________________________ Details: 'make html' fails with grub-dev.texi:1692: &lt; at &gt;image file `font_char_metrics..png' (for HTML) not readable: No such file or directory. on the line &lt; at &gt;image{font_char_metrics,,,,.png} Removing the . from png makes it work ... apparently contrary to what makeinfo documentation says. Leaving the extension out works for html - but might break for other formats. (Depending on how this is fixed, the next issues might be that other images are completely missing and that 'make install-html' doesn't install the images.) _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36340&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Mads Kiilerich 2012-04-29T22:49:37 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9065 <pre>To whom it may concern: I have tried and failed to manually install a grub bootloader onto an external hard drive. So here is the output from the `/usr/sbin/grub-probe --device-map="/media/EHD/boot/grub/device.map" --target=fs -v /media/EHD/boot/grub` command as requested: Auto-detection of a filesystem of /dev/sdb1 failed. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: cannot open `/media/EHD/boot/grub/device.map'. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: scanning hd0 for LVM. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found . /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: scanning hd1 for LVM. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found . /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: scanning hd0 for LVM. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found . /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: scanning hd0,msdos5 for LVM. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found . /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: scanning hd0,msdos1 for LVM. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found . /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: scanning hd1 for LVM. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found . /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: scanning hd1,msdos1 for LVM. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found . /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to /dev. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: /dev/sdb1 starts from 2048. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: opening the device /dev/sdb. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of /dev/sdb is 155907768. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: Partition 0 starts from 256. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sdb1. Check your device.map. I hope this is of use in resolving this situation. Sincerely, -matthew dodt &lt;randygaffer&lt; at &gt;yahoo.com&gt; </pre> Midnight Matt 2012-04-29T03:51:40 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9064 <pre>After my video card failed, I used the on-board video on the motherboard. That changed caused the GRUB boot-time to not output a readable signal by the monitor. (blank screen) Using the app Startup Manager I set the advanced options for 800x600. That returned me to a viewable selection of kernels, memory tests and boot windows options, but not GRUB Recovery mode(s). After a week the vid card maker sent me a replacement video card. I installed it, and switched the BIOS from video-internal to pci-e (it's an EVGA 9500GT a pci-e device). On boot if I select Recovery mode, the screen still blanks and after a moment a message flashes by (VGA=769 is deprecated) and a bunch of words that go by way too quickly to read. I tried to take a photo, but it's way too fast. Is there a way to edit grub.config to slow that down or find the logfile with that error message? After that VGA= message, the screen blanks. However, I can push the Enter (CR) key, and that starts the "Resume Normal Boot" function. So, presumably pressing the up or down cursor keys would take me somewhere in the GRUB recover options. Which I don't do, without being able to see what I am selecting. I have tried the one I know from memory: Resume Normal Boot. I have manually updated the GRUB with sudo update-grub. All went well at the terminal. Anybody know how to return my system to normal???? I continue to have this problem in Precise Pangolin 12.04. I first posted this message at Ubuntuforums.org in Nov. 2009. </pre> Mark Preston 2012-04-28T17:41:14 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9057 <pre>URL: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36258&gt; Summary: error grub-install v2.00 beta4 Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: gohlip Submitted on: Fri 20 Apr 2012 03:44:49 PM GMT Category: None Severity: Major Priority: 5 - Normal Item Group: None Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Originator Name: gohlip Originator Email: Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Release: Release: Bazaar - experimental branch Reproducibility: None Planned Release: None _______________________________________________________ Details: Downloaded and make install grub v2.00 beta4. Confirmed installation complete withour error with "grub-install -v" which gives "grub-install (GRUB) 2.00~beta4" However when I "sudo grub-install /dev/sda", the following error message appears... "/usr/local/sbin/grub-bios-setup: error: cannot write to `/dev/sda': Bad file descriptor." _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36258&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Goh Lip 2012-04-20T15:44:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9041 <pre>URL: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36239&gt; Summary: can't find command 's' Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: gohlip Submitted on: Wed 18 Apr 2012 12:11:22 PM GMT Category: Booting Severity: Major Priority: 5 - Normal Item Group: Software Error Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Originator Name: Goh Lip Originator Email: g.lip&lt; at &gt;gmx.com Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Release: Release: Bazaar - experimental branch Reproducibility: Every Time Planned Release: None _______________________________________________________ Details: grub v2.00 beta3 After editing menuentry using key 'e', I tried to boot either 'ctrl' +'x" or 'F10'. there is an error - "can't find command -s" or "unknown command 's". Have this error even if I do not modify but hitting 'e' and F10. There is no problem if I boot using grub prompt (key'c') but that requires inputting all commands/parameters. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36239&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Goh Lip 2012-04-18T12:11:22 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9039 <pre>URL: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36219&gt; Summary: GRUB2 fails to shutdown from the CLI (reboots instead of shutdown when doing "halt" from the CLI) - ThinkPad T510 Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: diegoviola Submitted on: Tue 17 Apr 2012 06:58:39 AM GMT Category: None Severity: Major Priority: 5 - Normal Item Group: None Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Originator Name: Originator Email: Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Release: Release: other Reproducibility: Every Time Planned Release: None _______________________________________________________ Details: Every time I turn on my laptop and GRUB2 appears, I type 'c' for CLI and then type 'halt' [ENTER]. GRUB2 would reboot my laptop instead of shutting it down. My laptop is a ThinkPad T510 4313CTO, I've tried upgrading the BIOS to latest (1.49) but same thing. GRUB2 version is: [diego&lt; at &gt;(none) ~]$ grub-install --version grub-install (GRUB) 2.00~beta3 [diego&lt; at &gt;(none) ~]$ My distribution is Arch Linux x86_64. I can reproduce this issue all the time on the laptop (ThinkPad T510). Please let me know if you need more information. Thanks. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36219&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Diego Viola 2012-04-17T06:58:39 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9037 <pre> grub does not work with specified versions of FreeBSD becase of there are new device driver for HDD: ada </pre> Eugen Konkov 2012-04-16T20:19:48 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9035 <pre>Hi every body It happens that Grub uses some files which are not located into the grub directory, as in the command if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; which is to be found in the 00_header section. To my opinion, Grub has to be independant of anything else. The file tree used when generating the grub.cfg file may be quite different than the one to be used when booting. So /usr/.../unicode.pf2 may be quite meaningless at boot time. If some system files are to be used by Grub, grub-mkconfig has to copy those files into the grub directory, and no reference outside of this directory should be allowed. Best regards Arbiel </pre> Arbiel Perlacremaz 2012-04-16T13:47:37 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs