Re: [bug #27621] Unable to load simple boot manager (SBM) with Grub 2

[Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko]

Michael37 wrote:
> URL:
>   <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?27621>
>
>                  Summary: Unable to load simple boot manager (SBM) with Grub
> 2
>                  Project: GNU GRUB
>             Submitted by: michael37
>             Submitted on: Wed 07 Oct 2009 01:06:23 AM GMT
>                 Category: Booting
>                 Severity: Major
>                 Priority: 5 - Normal
>               Item Group: Software Error
>                   Status: None
>                  Privacy: Public
>              Assigned to: None
>          Originator Name: Michael37
>         Originator Email: 
>              Open/Closed: Open
>          Discussion Lock: Any
>                  Release: 
>                  Release: SVN
>          Reproducibility: Every Time
>          Planned Release: None
>
>     _______________________________________________________
>
> Details:
>
> SBM is a nice handy tool which allows booting from devices that BIOS doesn't
> properly support, for example, from some USB CD-ROMs or from diagnostics dell
> partition.
>   
diagnostic and recovery partitions should be bootable by grub2  as well.
Perhaps you need Robert's ntldr patch
> In Jaunty and earlier releases with Grub 1, using SBM was trivial (inspired
> by http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/GRUB/Chainloaded_CD-ROM, but no downloads
> required). Simply install package syslinux, copy file
> /usr/lib/syslinux/memdisk to /boot; then copy file /install/sbm.bin from any
> Ubuntu install CD to /boot (reference:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SmartBootManager). Finally, set up grub 1
> entry
>
> title SBM
> root (hd0,1)
> kernel /boot/memdisk
> initrd /boot/sbm.bin
>
> The same strategy doesn't work for Karmic with grub 2 (version 1.97 beta 3).
> I added the following entry to /boot/grub/grub.cfg using
> /etc/grub.d/40_custom:
>
> menuentry "SBM" {
>       insmod ext2
>       set root=(hd0,1)
>       search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 1017bb9e-ad12-494f-a580-6f94b015891d
>       linux /boot/memdisk 
>       initrd /boot/sbm.bin
> }
>
> When I try to choose this entry in grub2 menu, I get one line of text as if
> kernel is trying to boot, then screen blanks and computer hangs.
>
> I tried using memdisk and sbm.bin from both Jaunty and Karmic under Karmic
> and neither work.  Looks like grub problem by elimination.
>
>
>
>   
memdisk incorrectly claims 32-bit linux boot protocol support. Not our
bug. Use linux16.
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Regards
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
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