grub2 hangs on eeepc 1101ha

[Jose Bernardo]

Binary package hint: grub2

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10

$ apt-cache policy grub2
grub2:
  Instalado: 1.97~beta1-1ubuntu4
  Candidato: 1.97~beta1-1ubuntu4
  Tabela de Versão:
     1.97~beta1-1ubuntu4 0
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages

grub2 hangs with "Welcome to grub" on a eeepc 1101ha. Also, after installing grub2 to /dev/sda (instead of chainloading), restored (and reinstalled a few times) grub won't work if I have a uuid line for each entry. It will hang, only booting if I replace the uuid entry with "root (hd0,4)".

Output of "fdisk -l"
Disco /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cilindros of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6e762533

Dispositivo Boot Início Fim Blocos Id Sistema
/dev/sda1 * 1 10812 86847358+ 7 HPFS ou NTFS
/dev/sda2 10813 18813 64268032+ 5 Estendida
/dev/sda3 18814 19451 5124735 1c FAT32 Win95 Escondida (LBA)
/dev/sda4 19452 19457 48195 ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
/dev/sda5 10813 12636 14651248+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 12637 18570 47664823+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 18571 18813 1951866 82 Linux swap / Solaris

$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-09-06 17:32 0480dcc8-f665-4bc5-869b-6210798c90d2 -> ../../sda7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-09-06 17:32 98B4757BB4755CA6 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-09-06 17:32 CCED-990E -> ../../sda3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-09-06 17:32 d6024f98-7625-491a-b8af-34d879d8b8b8 -> ../../sda6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-09-06 17:32 d6fd38ae-05ca-4858-9091-5ee51989bde1 -> ../../sda5

[Jose Bernardo (bernardo-bandos)]

I've tried today, with the latest karmic updates, and the result is still the same, grub2 hangs. All I get is a screen with ", bss=0x0Welcome to grub" at the left hand top, and then nothing. Am I the only eeepc user with this problem?

[lokað (lokad)]

Have you tried grub i386 packages? I experience another problem with grub2 on my asus eee 1000h (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/444562) - here i386 packages work fine but lpia packages don't.

[Jose Bernardo (bernardo-bandos)]

I'll check. But I think it might be related to the eeePC hd geometry - after all grub 1.x hangs also if I set the groot with a uuid and not a dev string.

[Spock112 (spock112)]

Did you try to update your BIOS. I'm using the latest version 0323 ... and I've no problems with grub2.

[Jose Bernardo (bernardo-bandos)]

Basically, I gave up. I repartitioned the disk without the recovery and the EF partition, and now grub2 doesn't hang anymore.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

karmic is no longer supported and receives no further updates. At your discretion, please reopen this ticket or create a new one if you experience this problem in a more recent, supported release.

We apologize we were unable to deal with the issue you were experiencing in a better, more timely manner.