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[bug #27720] Weird BIOS keeps GRUB from booting correctly


From: Daniel Mierswa
Subject: [bug #27720] Weird BIOS keeps GRUB from booting correctly
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:33:34 +0000
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URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?27720>

                 Summary: Weird BIOS keeps GRUB from booting correctly
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: impulze
            Submitted on: Fri 16 Oct 2009 01:33:33 PM GMT
                Category: Booting
                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: SVN
         Reproducibility: Every Time
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

As already mentioned on the user mailinglist:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-grub/2008-11/msg00011.html
and on the devel mailinglist:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-09/msg00486.html
my BIOS makes a crappy attempt to be smart and fails to boot GRUB properly. I
had to use a hack (explained by phcoder) to make it find GRUB on my primary
partition by putting it in a loop device and install grub on that loop device.
However that only works for that crappy BIOS so I was told to install GRUB
into the MBR also, so that I can use it on sane systems. However after doing
that, it gets stuck on printing "GRUB " again on my laptop. Now I was told to
open a bug here, so consider it done. :)




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