grub

GRUB won't boot if splash image is missing

Bug #32216 reported by Anders Kaseorg
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
grub
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
grub (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Dustin Kirkland 

Bug Description

If GRUB can't find its splash screen (due to bug #32011, for example, but that isn't the point), it does the most absurd thing possible:
  Failed to read splash image ((hd0,3)/grub/default-splash.xpm.gz)
  Press any key to continue...
Nobody cares about your splash image, I just want to boot my computer. This is an especially serious problem on headless servers.

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/lucid/grub
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Brian Derr (bderrly) wrote :

Anders, has this been fixed in a more recent version? Please let us know so we can either close the bug or escalate the issue.

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Anders Kaseorg (andersk) wrote :

No, this is still a problem in grub 0.97-29ubuntu3; I reproduced it by adding splashimage=(hd0,2)/invalid to the top of /boot/grub/menu.lst.

(BTW, apologies for the tone of my original report—I must have been way too annoyed at the time.)

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Brian Derr (bderrly) wrote :

From reading the docs @ http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ it seems that there will be no effort to add splash image support to "legacy" GRUB. This change will have to be made at the distribution level until grub2 is available.

Changed in grub:
status: New → Invalid
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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote :

I saw the same behavior, when messing around with splash images; confirmed. I screwed up the path and rendered my machine unbootable until hitting a key.

Clearly not desired for unattended boots. But neither are splash images. So the priority is low.

I have a simple patch, testing now.

:-Dustin

Changed in grub:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote :

The attached patch has been tested and solves this problem. The error message is very briefly displayed, but it does not wait for a silly key-press.

:-Dustin

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote :

In progress, and I've submitted a patch. Assigning to myself.

:-Dustin

Changed in grub:
assignee: nobody → kirkland
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote :

Applied such patch to a bzr branch:

lp:~kirkland/grub/grub.32216

:-Dustin

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote : Sponsor Request

Steve: can you please take a look at it?

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote : Re: [Bug 32216] Sponsor Request

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Daniel Holbach
<email address hidden> wrote:
> Steve: can you please take a look at it?

Hey Daniel-

I spoke with Steve on IRC and he said that he preferred a mergable bzr
branch, rather than a debdiff. I followed his instructions and he
merged my fix. Thanks!

:-Dustin

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package grub - 0.97-29ubuntu22

---------------
grub (0.97-29ubuntu22) intrepid; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/graphics.diff: grub should not wait for an interactive
    keypress on failure to locate splash image, bad for unattended booting,
    (LP: #32216)

 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Thu, 29 May 2008 13:44:59 -0500

Changed in grub:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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