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Re: grub copying screen to printer?
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Dan Farrell |
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Re: grub copying screen to printer? |
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Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:44:28 -0600 |
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:59:38 -0500
Tom Horsley <address@hidden> wrote:
> Twice now, I have had one of my boot partitions corrupted in this
> strange fashion:
>
> The word GRUB appears on the screen, then the system proceeds to copy
> the contents of the screen to the printer port over and over.
>
> Re-installing grub from rescue disk fixes the problem and all seems
> to be well otherwise.
>
> Copying the screen to the printer seems like awfully complex activity
> for any kind of random corruption to achieve. Anyone have any notion
> what the heck is going on here?
>
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on the contrary, printers often will happily reproduce the ASCII code
being sent to them on a parallel port. The problem is likely to be a
bad memory address somewhere. Addresses are pretty easy to get wrong.
Are you using a recent version? If not, i recommend trying one. GRUB
upgrades are pretty trivial. I use GRUB I version 0.97