Re: GRUB 1.90 is released

[Vernon Mauery <vernon-grub@mauery.com>]

Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> I'm happy to announce the release of GRUB 1.90. This is the first of
> our prereleases leading up to GRUB 2.0. We encourage you to try it, as
> we have done a significant amount of work towards GRUB 2. Note that this 
> release is mainly for developers who are willing to contribute to our 
> project. If you need a working solution immediately, you'd better to stick to 
> GRUB Legacy at the moment.

I am seeing unaligned pointer messages when I use grub2 on /dev/hda2.  If I type 'root (hd0,2)', I get 'unaligned pointer 0x7ff94' and if I type 'insmod (hd0,2)/boot/grub/mulitboot.mod', I get 'unaligned pointer 0x7ff64'.

I downloaded the source, built it and installed it on my hard drive to test it out.  I had an unused partition that contains a fork of my live system, so I figured I could put grub2 on that.  That partition was hda3 (hd0,2).  So I ran grub-install /dev/hda3 and that went okay.  The files showed up in the right spot in /boot/grub.  Then I ran grub-setup "(hd0,2)" which also went fine.  I tried booting the image in bochs and qemu using /dev/hda as the drive for the emulated machine, chainloading from grub-legacy on (hd0) to grub2 on (hd0,2).  I get the grub prompt and all looks fine until I try to do something interesting.  Then I got the above messages.  I tried running on the actual harware rather than the emulator, but that gave the same messages, so I figured I should report them.

--Vernon