Installation woes -> GRUB2 bugs

[Reindl Harald]

Am 09.07.2013 10:31, schrieb Piotr Gbyliczek:
> On Monday 08 Jul 2013 21:21:46 Reindl Harald wrote:
>> this is simply the crappy GRUB2
>>
>> not only that the whole configuration is a cluttered script
>> mixup virtually nobody understands to deal with, it's the
>> first time in my life i saw a boot-manager freezing and
>> nobody is able to repdrocue it predictable to find and
>> fix the reason and it hits you only if you hardly need
>> change anything because 99.9% a year you do not touch it
> 
> I've only seen this when attempted to use graphical themes in Grub2, dropping 
> to text mode fixed it for me all the times

nope - the first step on any machine since FC3
for me is to disable "rhgb", "quiet" and i had
these grub-freezes multiple times

maybe it depends on how long is your kernel
line because it does not freeze at the first
cursor move and if it is short enough you
may have luck

root=UUID=b935b5db-0051-4f7f-83ac-6a6651fe0988 ro divider=10 audit=0 rd.plymouth=0 plymouth.enable=0
rd.md.uuid=b7475879:c95d9a47:c5043c02:0c5ae720 rd.md.uuid=1d691642:baed26df:1d197496:4fb00ff8
rd.md.uuid=ea253255:cb915401:f32794ad:ce0fe396 rd.luks=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0 elevator=cfq selinux=0 ipv6.disable=1
scsi_mod.scan=sync net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0 clocksource=hpet noisapnp noresume nf_conntrack.acct=1 printk.time=0
nmi_watchdog=0 pcie_aspm=force i915.i915_enable_rc6=7 i915.i915_enable_fbc=1 i915.lvds_downclock=1 consoleblank=0
acpi_osi=Linux vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 vconsole.keymap=de-latin1-nodeadkeys locale.LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8

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