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

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Message-ID: <46A8C112.9070504@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:43:14 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Xudong Guan <xudong.guan@...il.com>
CC:	Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@...oo.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found...

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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