[Bug 317055] Re: grub failue to boot a extensa 4210 in 8.10

[dino99]

outdated report & no more maintained distro; please send a new one if
that issue still exist (using ubuntu-bug)

** Changed in: grub (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  grub failue to boot a extensa 4210 in 8.10

Status in grub package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: grub

  Description:

  There is a ACER Extensa 4210 serial laptop. There was a Vista
  installed until the owner decide to replace it with XP + Ubuntu. There
  also a ACER recover system partition. So the patition table looks like

  Device          Boot         Start          End             Blocks             Id              System                           comment
  /dev/sda1                            1         1019         8185086            12            Compaq diagnostics       NTFS for ACER recover system
  /dev/sda2         *            1020         6118         40957717+        7             HPFS/NTFS                      Windows XP
  /dev/sda3                       6119         9729         29005357+        5            Extended
  /dev/sda5                       6119         6969           6835626          83           Linux                                Ubuntu /
  /dev/sda6                       6970         7151           1461883          82           Linux swap /Solaris           Ubuntu swap
  /dev/sda7                       7152         9729         20707753          83           Linux                                Ubuntu /home

  After installed Ubuntu to the system in the grub menu,  it fails to
  start and reports and error related to BIOS disk (I forgotten).
  Because I installed a "GRUB4DOS" into the computer later, I can not
  provide the exact error code now. However, the "GRUB4DOS" cannot solve
  the problem. It reports:

  Booting 'Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic'
  [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3000, size=0x220cb0]
  [Linux-initrd @0x1eeb3000, 0x7cc298 byes]

  invalid compressed format (err=1)

  --System halted

  If I copy the kernel image and initrd to the sda1 patition and boot
  them with GRUB4DOS, the system will reboot automatically with a
  crashed screen (No readable information, just a piece of white block).
  I think these files is corrupted.

  By the way, the information about bzImage & initrd is not shown in the
  original version of GRUB provided by Ubuntu 8.10, and I has never seen
  corrupted screen with it.

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