grub2 boot fail after HD install (eee, w500) - syslinux works though

[danstowell]

(discussed on mailing list) two users (me on Eee 701, alejo on W500) have installed from a working live USB and found that the resulting install fails to boot but drops to a "grub>" prompt.

If I change the bootloader from grub to syslinux (patch below) then it seems to work great on my Eee. I don't understand the cause of the grub issue, but the syslinux solution seems to suggest that live-helper is presumably getting something wrong with the grub setup. I presume grub would be preferred to syslinux ideally?

Note the grub problem happens for me whether I use an official ISO or one I've built at home. And it doesn't happen for everyone since apparently craftivism was installed happily on machines at the workshop.

=== modified file 'broth.sh'
--- broth.sh 2009-11-20 22:00:46 +0000
+++ broth.sh 2009-12-14 22:55:07 +0000
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@
     --mirror-binary-security "http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" \
     --binary-indices disabled \
     --bootappend-live "persistent" \
+ --bootloader "syslinux" \
     --hostname "puredyne" \
     --iso-application "Puredyne" \
     --iso-preparer "live-helper $VERSION" \

[aleij (alejoduque)]

I solved my problem locally running a grub-install of the HD and the adding the required grub configuration file in menu.lst

[danstowell (danstowell)]

This bug goes away for me with a more recent dev build (broth devel rev 239). Needs more testing of course, but this bug may be closeable unless others find it recurring.

[Aymeric Mansoux (aymeric)]

I mark it as fix committed as the changes was due to using more recent packages. Reopen if needed.