replying to myself as I figured out strace was in the default install.
the only interesting thing I can make out before the segfault is _llseek with
error ptrace:umoven input/output error.
> Just installed on a msi neo2 board, and have the same problem, booted from cd,
> activated my lvm2 partitions, mounted em in, ran grub and did:
>
> root (hd0,0)
> setup (hd0)
> to see if that would help, the setup (hd0,0) caused a segfault in grub.
replying to myself as I figured out strace was in the default install.
the only interesting thing I can make out before the segfault is _llseek with
error ptrace:umoven input/output error.
> Just installed on a msi neo2 board, and have the same problem, booted from cd,
> activated my lvm2 partitions, mounted em in, ran grub and did:
>
> root (hd0,0)
> setup (hd0)
> to see if that would help, the setup (hd0,0) caused a segfault in grub.