linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.23: GRUB reports "Setup signature not found"

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Message-ID: <4734ACAD.3060001@zytor.com>
Date:	Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:53:33 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
CC:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.23: GRUB reports "Setup signature not found"

Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:40:54 -0800 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>> Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:48:20 -0500 Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>>>
>>>> Multiple people have now reported this error message with 2.6.23.
>>>> Updating GRUB fixes it:
>>>>
>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=370391
>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=371321
>>> Thanks for the info.
>>> A better fix IMHO would be if one could get lilo to work.  :)
>>>
>>> ---
>>> ~Randy [who is fed up with grub]
>> BTW, I definitely can agree with your feeling about grub (which is part 
>> of why I maintain a different boot loader suite.)  However, if you know 
>> of any LILO problems, please speak up.
> 
> I don't know of any lilo-specific problems and didn't mean to imply
> that LILO is at fault.
> 
> The problems that I have seen when I have tried to switch from
> grub to LILO are more like config issues:
> either "can't find root device" or
> "cannot open /dev/console" or other initrd/initramfs issues.
> 

OK.  I'd be interested in your experience if you'd be willing to try out 
syslinux (extlinux).

	-hpa
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