GRUB 2.02 hangs on pre-UEFI Dell Poweredge 2950

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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 15 Jun 2017 11:18
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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:

Has anyone experienced this?

Thanks,
Ludo’.
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 26 Jun 2017 21:57
control message for bug #27372
(address . control@debbugs.gnu.org)
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severity 27372 important
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 26 Jun 2018 10:04
(address . control@debbugs.gnu.org)
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tags 27372 unreproducible
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Sarah Morgensen wrote on 20 Sep 2021 07:35
Re: bug#27372: GRUB 2.02 hangs on pre-UEFI Dell Poweredge 2950
(name . Ludovic Courtès)(address . ludo@gnu.org)(address . 27372@debbugs.gnu.org)
867dfbhks5.fsf@mgsn.dev
Hi Ludo,

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

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> 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
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 22 Sep 2021 12:32
(name . Sarah Morgensen)(address . iskarian@mgsn.dev)(address . 27372-done@debbugs.gnu.org)
877df8j3yi.fsf@gnu.org
Hi Sarah,

Sarah Morgensen <iskarian@mgsn.dev> skribis:

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> ludo@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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