Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found...

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Jul 26 2007 - 11:43:32 EST


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
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