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oktober 17, 2019
grub a.k.a. grub2 a.k.a. grub-pc has a fancy graphical early boot interface. But it fails to cooperate with the old BIOS of my compaq laptop ("armada" something). In fact, it can't boot linux nor memtest86+.
As always, someone else has been here before. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/513528
When trying to boot linux, I get this error message:
"error: cannot allocate real mode pages"
And, when trying to boot memtest86+, I is informed that
"error: too small lower memory (0x9910 > 0x0)"
Since the bug was not recorded in the debian bts (bug tracking system) I issued a bugreport for debian too. When doing so, one is expected to go through the one-line-summary of other bugreports against the package, but when the are about 80-100 other bug-reports, that seems too hard.
In addition, bug 549429 in the debian bts seems related, even if it is reported against memtest86+.