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From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] grub2 menu : freeze while initial drawing
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 16:22:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200412191622.00337.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41BEC01B.9020709@yahoo.fr>

On Tuesday 14 December 2004 11:27, Vincent Pelletier wrote:
> The menu border is drawn (btw : the top border isn't drawn, the
> bottom one is drawn below screen, and the right one has 2 empty
> columns on its right. I'm not reporting it as a bug since Marco
> Gerards told me there may already be a patch for that), the top
> message too (GRUB version...) and then it freezes.
> Once border drawing disabled, the second message was drawn (Press
> enter to boot the selected OS...) and the cursor was still visible. I
> saw it stop blinking (tested in bochs only).

Ummh. I don't know why. I should check it seriously. I have no energy to 
do this at the moment, unfortunately.

There are some possibilities. I think it is very likely that GRUB 
attempts to write something outside the screen and corrupt BIOS code or 
data on memory.

If you can test this more, please do it.

Thanks,
Okuji



  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-19 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-14 10:27 [BUG] grub2 menu : freeze while initial drawing Vincent Pelletier
2004-12-19 15:22 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
2004-12-19 21:45   ` [PATCH] " Vincent Pelletier
2004-12-19 21:57     ` Vincent Pelletier
2004-12-22 13:45       ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-12-22 13:57         ` Vincent Pelletier
2004-12-22 16:03           ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-01-08 15:25       ` [PATCH v2] " Vincent Pelletier
2005-01-20 14:36         ` Marco Gerards
2005-01-20 17:32           ` Yoshinori K. Okuji

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