Bug#488000: grub2: fails to boot dq35jo intel board

[maximilian attems]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Robert Millan wrote:

> 
> Were you using GPT?  In that case d-i picks grub2.

seems not.

dpkg -l grub*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                 Version                     Description
+++-====================================-===========================-============================================
ii  grub                                 0.97-40                     GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy version)
ii  grub-common                          1.96+20080626-1             GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (common 
un  grub-efi                             <none>                      (no description available)
un  grub-ieee1275                        <none>                      (no description available)
un  grub-legacy-doc                      <none>                      (no description available)
un  grub-linuxbios                       <none>                      (no description available)
un  grub-pc                              <none>                      (no description available)

attached are 3 mbr, the first one is after grub install from d-i,
the second one is after letting d-i running lilo (yeah unstable repo
added temporarly), the third one is then letting d-i run grub install.

the second and third are bootable where as the first ist not

thanks

-- 
maks
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