Re: fixing the "grub loading stage1.5" hanging error

[adrian15]

Michael L. Gualtieri escribió:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm curious if anyone has a fix, workaround, or advice for the "grub 
> loading stage1.5" hanging error.  This occurs sometimes on fresh 
> grub-installs, where grub never loads, and instead hangs on this text 
> with no error message:
>
> GRUB loading stage 1.5
> GRUB loading, please wait...

A workaround solution is to delete or rename the stage1_5 file and make 
link the stage1 to the stage2 directly by running root and setup 
commands again.

> I have done some debugging of the grub source to find out where the 
> freeze happens.  I traced it to this line:
>
> file: stage2/disk_io.c
> fuction: int grub_open (char *filename)
> line: if (!errnum && (*(fsys_table[fsys_type].dir_func)) (filename))
>
> In particular it hangs at this part of the if statement:
> (*(fsys_table[fsys_type].dir_func)) (filename)

This code, if you are trying to read a file from an ext2 or ext3 
filesystem it runs:

int
ext2fs_dir (char *dirname)

from the stage2/fsys_ext2fs.c file.

You might try to find the hang there.


adrian15