Bug#506008: [grub-invaders] Fails to boot

[Didier Raboud]

Le mercredi 19 novembre 2008 12:45:03 Robert Millan, vous avez écrit :
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:52:22AM +0100, Didier Raboud wrote:
> > Le mercredi 19 novembre 2008 11:26:05, vous avez écrit :
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > The proposed patch is wrong.  I have no idea how it is supposed to fix
> > > the problem, but grub isn't supposed to perform UUID search for a
> > > partition unless it is going to be accessed (i.e. after user
> > > selection).
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tend to agree and I still wonder why it didn't work, but note that this
> > is what is done in /etc/grub.d/10_linux . That's why I proposed a patch
> > doing the same.
> >
> > See my attached /boot/grub/grub.cfg and its relevant parts in 10_linux :
> >
> > 	set root=(hd0,1)
> > 	search --fs-uuid --set 055ce214-7182-4b61-84e8-c831372d5e64
> > 	menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.27-1-amd64" {
> > 		(...)
>
> Note that this was a bug.  It was fixed in:
>
> 2008-08-01  Robert Millan  <rmh at aybabtu.com>
>
>         * util/grub.d/10_linux.in: Use prepare_grub_to_access_device() from
>         within menuentries, not before them.
>         util/grub.d/10_hurd.in: Likewise.
>
> Not sure if it made it to Lenny.

Hi again, 

from reading the changelog.gz, I confirm that this should have made it to Lenny. 
After purging and reinstalling grub-pc from Lenny, 10_linux is still producing 
a similar entry as above.

The mentioned bug (number ?) is then still open. I fear to try the change 
because if invaders fails, what tells me that my boot won't fail too ?

What I see here on my laptop is that with the prepare_grub_to_access_device() 
outside of the entries, it works and with it being inside the entry 
for "invaders", it fails.

So ?

Regards, 

OdyX

-- 
Didier Raboud, proud Debian user.
CH-1802 Corseaux
didier at raboud.com
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