grub hangs at early booting after handoff from PXE
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Release Notes for Ubuntu |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Colin Watson | ||
syslinux (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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High
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Colin Watson | ||
Maverick |
Won't Fix
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High
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Canonical Foundations Team |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: grub2
On three different Dell Inspiron 1545 (and 1546) systems, grub hangs right after hand-off from PXE.
I've tried 'localboot 0', 'localboot 0x80', and 'localboot -1'. -1 seems to work but only on the Inspiron 1546.
'localboot 5' was also attempted in case the issue was with how the PXE stack was getting unloaded, but it doesn't seem to change behavior at all.
When the systems are booted directly to the hard drive (either using F12 to boot to the hard drive directly, or escaping out of PXE before it does boot off the network, grub loads normally and hands off to the kernel without a hitch.
Installing grub with --debug-image=all yields no debugging information whatsoever if booting using PXE. Behavior is normal if booted straight to the hard drive (debug information is shown).
Changed in ubuntu-release-notes: | |
assignee: | nobody → Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations) |
Ok, apparently -1 works on the Inspiron 1545 as well, but this solution is not usable as it makes other machines (e.g. Toshiba systems) fail to boot in the same way described above.