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grub2 package

  1. Bug #424503
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 424503

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Felix Zielcke (fzielcke) wrote : Re: [Bug 424503] [NEW] Boot fails with Out of Range Pointer error

Am Freitag, den 04.09.2009, 19:33 +0000 schrieb Launchpad Bug Tracker:
> You have been subscribed to a public bug:
>
> I booted up my laptop running the 32-bit Karmic Alpha this afternoon
> without issue and rebooted after applying the updates. After a reboot, I
> received the following error:
>
> --------------------
> Booting 'Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-9-generic'
>
> out of range pointer 0x400040
> Aborted. Press any key to exit.
> --------------------
>
> This happens with any kernel selected (2.6.31-9, 2.6.31-8, 2.6.31-5),
> with and without recovery mode. The Grub version is 1.97~beta1.
>

To workaround this problem, uncomment the GRUB_TERMINAL=console
in /etc/default/grub and run update-grub.
Then it should work again.
Does your laptop have some ATI chip?

Related Debian bugs are:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544155
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544639

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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer