Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:41:35 -0400 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found... SOLVED! |
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Borislav Petkov wrote: > > Hi, > > now this is one of those cases where one tries to shoot a small fly with a > nuclear missile. The first assumption that something was wrong with the kernel > setup code was wrong and here's how i know: > > The problem with my version of grub not hitting the breakpoint 0x90200 made me > think that something might be messed up in the grub part of the boot sequence. > Thus, i did the qemu simulation again and noticed on the initial boot screen of > grub it saying "Grub version 0.91." However, you remember from a different post > that the version of grub i have is the latest to be found in debian unstable, > 0.97-29, so i thought that something has to be wrong with it and especially with all > those grub stages binaries, in my case in /boot/grub, which grub-install setups. > Checking their timestamps revealed that the files are from 2004 so i thought, > well, these are OLD! :) After refreshing the grub installation and replacing > the stages-binaries with the fresh ones, the kernel booted just fine :), here: > > [boris@gollum:07:02:07:~:9994)-> uname -a > Linux gollum 2.6.22-4fd06960f120e02e9abc802a09f9511c400042a5-12 #12 PREEMPT Thu Jul 26 18:08:34 CEST 2007 i686 GNU/Linux > > so i guess the problem was with the ancient parts of a grub installation i had > lying around which weren't replaced by the apt-get update process and somehow > messed up newer grub versions. Anyway, in the end one still learns a lot while at it. > > Thanks for your help. >
Very cool. I actually suspected that, but I wanted to explore all avenues. I'm glad this can be written off.
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