Subject: bug#27372: GRUB 2.02 hangs on pre-UEFI Dell Poweredge 2950

From: Sarah Morgensen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 22:35:06 -0700

Hi Ludo,

[email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hello,
>
> GRUB as found in the 0.13.0 installation image hangs after printing the
> four letters “GRUB” in console mode on a pre-UEFI Dell Poweredge 2950
> server (something that’s roughly ten years old.)
>
> I built an image where GRUB’s graphical terminal output was disabled:
>
>   (grub-configuration
>     (device "/dev/sda")
>     (terminal-outputs '(console)))
>
> … but that didn’t help.
>
> Conversely, Debian’s ‘grub-pc’ 2.02~beta3-5 package doesn’t have this
> problem.   Debian’s ‘grub.cfg’ prologue is similar to ours so I suspect
> the problem is in GRUB itself.  Debian has “quite a few” patches for
> GRUB though:
> <https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-grub/grub.git/tree/debian/patches>.
>
> Has anyone experienced this?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

Given that we're past v1.3.0 now, is this still relevant?

Thanks,
--
Sarah