Bug#586458: grub-pc: unaligned pointer problem with 1.98+20100617

[Colin Watson]

# Please only bugs upstream if you've taken care to reproduce them with
# upstream code and know that the problem is really in upstream code
# rather than in packaging ...
tags 586458 - upstream
forcemerge 554790 586458
thanks

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 03:43:04AM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote:
> Package: grub-pc
> Version: 1.98+20100617-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: upstream
> 
> 
> I have been reading #grub and the other recent bug comments.
> 
> As per Colin's request, this is the extra information.
> 
[...]
> * grub-pc/install_devices: /dev/hda
[...]
> /dev/sda7 / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0

Thanks.  Based on your statement that 'grub-install /dev/sda' fixes
things, it seems clear that this is another instance of #554790.  I do
plan to fix this soon, but in the meantime, I recommend you run
'dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc' and select /dev/sda as the install device to
ensure that grub-install is run properly on future updates, which will
at least make things a bit safer for the time being.

Regards,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]