Bug#606845: grub-common: "Autochck program not found. Skipping autocheck", but sure that mbr.bin works !

yellow yellowprotoss at gmail.com
Sun Dec 12 10:15:59 UTC 2010


Package: grub-common
Version: 1.98+20100804-8
Severity: important

Dear sir,

my grub.cfg contains:
menuentry "Windows XP  (on /dev/sda2)" {
        set root='(hd0,msdos2)'
        chainloader  (hd0,msdos5)/mbrwinxp.bin
}

xp boots up, but the problem is that it stops giving this error:


Autochck program not found. Skipping autocheck


no way to get grub2 working with windows xp and linux all tother



I boot with pmagic live linux cdrom, and do

dd if=/mountedsda5/mbrwinxp.bin of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1

and windows XP boots and no error message.


I would like to have dual booting : XP and LINUX.

Please HELP !! No one knows how to fix that since grub2 is a complicated machine :( 

All teh best

Grub rocks


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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages grub-common depends on:
ii  base-files              5.10             Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  dpkg                    1.15.8.5         Debian package management system
ii  gettext-base            0.18.1.1-3       GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  install-info            4.13a.dfsg.1-6   Manage installed documentation in 
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-7         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1      2:1.02.48-4      The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libfreetype6            2.4.2-2.1        FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages grub-common recommends:
ii  os-prober                     1.40       utility to detect other OSes on a 

Versions of packages grub-common suggests:
pn  grub-emu                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  multiboot-doc                 <none>     (no description available)
pn  xorriso                       <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information





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