From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.33) id 1Cg33E-0002hr-EH for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 10:32:52 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Cg33B-0002f2-AD for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 10:32:49 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Cg338-0002dX-Ml for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 10:32:46 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Cg338-0002dM-Iu for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 10:32:46 -0500 Received: from [212.43.237.68] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Cg2sh-0008WF-PJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 10:22:00 -0500 Received: from ASSP-nospam (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 481EEF6A0243 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 16:21:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost) by ASSP-nospam ; 19 Dec 04 15:21:59 -0000 From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 16:22:00 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <41BEC01B.9020709@yahoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <41BEC01B.9020709@yahoo.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200412191622.00337.okuji@enbug.org> Subject: Re: [BUG] grub2 menu : freeze while initial drawing X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 15:32:50 -0000 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