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[Aymeric Mansoux <am-launchpad@xxxxxxx>]

Yes it could be related...

And same question as your other bug report, 9.11 won't be updated
anymore, so it would be good to know if this is a problem for the in-
progress 10.10 version.

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Title:
  GRUB/Install menu locks up (9.11)

Status in Puredyne liveCD/DVD/USB/HD:
  New

Bug description:
  NOTE: AFFECTS PUREDYNE 9.11

  Puredyne never had this problem on my 6 year old HP Desktop.  But on a
  6 year old HP Laptop, it did.

  Setup:
  Old HP Laptop <-- USB --> External DVD Drive (With Puredyne disc to boot from)

  (1) Live Boot menu problem: It locks up immediately after pressing any
  key on the Live boot screen, or 95% of the time, locks up after a few
  seconds even if I don't press a key.  Finally after trying many times,
  I get past the Live boot screen and successfully boot into Puredyne.
  I am able to install Puredyne on a partition, but end up with problem
  (2) below...

  (2) SIMILAR GRUB problem after installation on Hard drive partition: I
  can see other partitions Linux and Windows partitions, but if I try to
  press UP or DOWN key, GRUB freezes.  However, if I press no keys after
  powering on, at least it boots into Puredyne 100% of the time.  But I
  still can't access my other partitions without using Super Grub.

  Work-around for (1): None?  Try many times to boot off live disk and
  get lucky 5% of the time?

  Work-around for (2) GRUB boot problem: After installing Puredyne, find
  a way to install a version GRUB 2.0 or later.  I believe Puredyne's
  GRUB 1.97 is the issue.  Usually, I just installed a working version
  of Ubuntu (yes, on ANOTHER partition XD) that had GRUB 2.0 which fixed
  the GRUB menu.

  Question: Perhaps GRUB 1.97 caused the "PC ONLY: the current stick
  cannot boot on Mac (do you know why? tell us!)" from the Puredyne
  website?

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