Bug#551319: [grub] grub: crashes frequently on boot

[Tobias Frost]

Package: grub
Version: 0.97-59
Severity: serious

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The new grub package seems to be very unstable -- at least at my acer aspire 5630 Laptops:

I see the following behaviours:
- laptop reboots (just after the screen gets blank, ready to print "GRUB loading"
- grub hangs just after telling "Loading GRUB"
- sometimes it displays something like "Corrupt End-Of-Free Marker found after <some-hex-address>. 
 Next time I see that message, I will write it down to have it exactly

After several tries (average 5 tries) it will eventually succeed booting.

If you need more informations, please let me know what you need. In the mean time I try grub-legacy too rule out hardware problems.

coldtobi


--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.30-2-686

Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  500 unstable        ftp.uni-bayreuth.de 

--- Package information. ---
Depends          (Version) | Installed
==========================-+-===========
grub-pc                    | 1.97~beta4-1
debconf          (>= 0.5)  | 1.5.27
 OR debconf-2.0            | 


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