Bug#423268: grub-pc: system unbootable when /boot and separate partion, doesnt detect other installed OSes.

Bharath Ramesh krosswindz at gmail.com
Fri May 11 02:29:43 UTC 2007


Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.95+20070507-1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system


After upgrading to the newer version of Grub2, postinst runs update-grub which
uses hooks in /etc/grub.d/. If /boot is mounted on separate partition the
grub.cfg still retains /boot/vmlinuz-* as the location for the kernel and
similarly for initrd. This renders the system unbootable.

Secondly it doesnt detect the existence of other OSes in the case of a dual
boot system. Causing those OSes to be unbootable.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash




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