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

Robert Millan rmh at aybabtu.com
Fri May 11 15:05:10 UTC 2007


On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:06:12AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com> writes:
> 
> >> > 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.
> >> 
> >> This bug has already been fixed on development version.
> >
> > Are you sure?  I don't see any updates in SVN or CVS that indicate this is
> > fixed.
> 
> I said that since you said you have spoted it out. That's why.

I spotted it, but since it's not trivial I left it for later.  Sorry :-)

But feel free to go at it if you like.  Atm I'm busy with grub-efi.

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