From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762615AbXGZPn2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:43:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757596AbXGZPnU (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:43:20 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:54654 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754320AbXGZPnT (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:43:19 -0400 Message-ID: <46A8C112.9070504@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:43:14 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Xudong Guan CC: Borislav Petkov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found... References: <20070724112618.GA4431@gollum.tnic> <20070726150854.GA7034@xguan-laptop> <46A8BB6C.6050903@zytor.com> <20070726152604.GA25792@xguan-laptop> In-Reply-To: <20070726152604.GA25792@xguan-laptop> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Xudong Guan wrote: > On 08:19(-0700) Thu 26 Jul, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> What distro/version of grub are you running? I'm wondering if there are >> some old version of grub out there which did the "load four sectors" >> way-anciently-obsolete crap; the other possibility that comes to mind is >> setting up the stack in an invalid manner > > My grub screen shows "GRUB version 0.91". I am playing with a qemu > image with this version of grub came from an old Damn Small Linux distribution. > Hm, the oldest on GNU's website is 0.92, so I suspect 0.91 is the version number it had back when everyone was effectively using Grub snapshots. I'll try to see if I can pull Grub's CVS repository and do some archeology. -hpa