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GRUB 2.02 hangs on pre-UEFI Dell Poweredge 2950

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: GRUB 2.02 hangs on pre-UEFI Dell Poweredge 2950
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 11:18:08 +0200

Hello,

GRUB as found in the 0.13.0 installation image hangs after printing the
four letters “GRUB” in console mode on a pre-UEFI Dell Poweredge 2950
server (something that’s roughly ten years old.)

I built an image where GRUB’s graphical terminal output was disabled:

  (grub-configuration
    (device "/dev/sda")
    (terminal-outputs '(console)))

… but that didn’t help.

Conversely, Debian’s ‘grub-pc’ 2.02~beta3-5 package doesn’t have this
problem.   Debian’s ‘grub.cfg’ prologue is similar to ours so I suspect
the problem is in GRUB itself.  Debian has “quite a few” patches for
GRUB though:
<https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-grub/grub.git/tree/debian/patches>.

Has anyone experienced this?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Message #12 received at 27372 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Sarah Morgensen <iskarian <at> mgsn.dev>
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: 27372 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27372: GRUB 2.02 hangs on pre-UEFI Dell Poweredge 2950
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 22:35:06 -0700

Hi Ludo,

ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hello,
>
> GRUB as found in the 0.13.0 installation image hangs after printing the
> four letters “GRUB” in console mode on a pre-UEFI Dell Poweredge 2950
> server (something that’s roughly ten years old.)
>
> I built an image where GRUB’s graphical terminal output was disabled:
>
>   (grub-configuration
>     (device "/dev/sda")
>     (terminal-outputs '(console)))
>
> … but that didn’t help.
>
> Conversely, Debian’s ‘grub-pc’ 2.02~beta3-5 package doesn’t have this
> problem.   Debian’s ‘grub.cfg’ prologue is similar to ours so I suspect
> the problem is in GRUB itself.  Debian has “quite a few” patches for
> GRUB though:
> <https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-grub/grub.git/tree/debian/patches>.
>
> Has anyone experienced this?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

Given that we're past v1.3.0 now, is this still relevant?

Thanks,
--
Sarah

Message #17 received at 27372-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Sarah Morgensen <iskarian <at> mgsn.dev>
Cc: 27372-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27372: GRUB 2.02 hangs on pre-UEFI Dell Poweredge 2950
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 12:32:21 +0200

Hi Sarah,

Sarah Morgensen <iskarian <at> mgsn.dev> skribis:

> ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> GRUB as found in the 0.13.0 installation image hangs after printing the
>> four letters “GRUB” in console mode on a pre-UEFI Dell Poweredge 2950
>> server (something that’s roughly ten years old.)
>>
>> I built an image where GRUB’s graphical terminal output was disabled:
>>
>>   (grub-configuration
>>     (device "/dev/sda")
>>     (terminal-outputs '(console)))
>>
>> … but that didn’t help.
>>
>> Conversely, Debian’s ‘grub-pc’ 2.02~beta3-5 package doesn’t have this
>> problem.   Debian’s ‘grub.cfg’ prologue is similar to ours so I suspect
>> the problem is in GRUB itself.  Debian has “quite a few” patches for
>> GRUB though:
>> <https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-grub/grub.git/tree/debian/patches>.
>>
>> Has anyone experienced this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ludo’.
>
> Given that we're past v1.3.0 now, is this still relevant?

No it’s not; closing!

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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