Re: Grub2 svn2059

[Andreas Born]

BandiPat schrieb:
> Thanks Andreas, I just figured that out as well when testing on 
> another machine just now.  If you still have the file I sent you for 
> svn2059, would you mind testing it on your machine as well.  I'm 
> tempted to send you the svn2059 or 2065 to compile on your current 
> machine, to see if it behaves differently than the one I built.  Be 
> prepared though, as I'm sure you'll need to re-install svn2031 back 
> after 2059 fails to boot. Keep your LiveCD available to reboot!  :-)
I tested the svn2059-60.1 build on my current Zenwalk installation. It 
would boot here, but I have it installed to superblock of my ext3 
partition, so that might be the difference. Therefore I installed grub2 
to the MBR, but like that it would work too.
But I noticed two other problems:

   * If I drop to console with 'c' from the menu and then reload the
     menu with 'configfile (hd0,3)/boot/grub/grub.cfg', 'prefix' is
     unset and I can't boot. If I drop then back to console I can set
     'prefix' properly to '(hd0,3)/boot/grub' and boot from console,
     but configfile won't work.
   * With the 'linux' loader as opposed to the 'linux16' loader, I
     would always get a verbose splash, although I force a silent one
     with 'splash=silent'. My assumption was that the kernel parameters
     are ignored at all, but passing a wrong root resulted in a error.
     So either only 'splash=silent' is ignored or its something
     completely different. I think the problem is related to the one
     described in "New linux loader doesn't like vga=1".


Andreas