Bug#586608: grub-pc: the dreaded unaligned pointer problem

[Colin Watson]

tags 586608 - upstream
thanks

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 09:23:36PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> Here is the requested output of the command, with a rescue CD (with
> all the proper filesystems mounted):

Please give me a bit of background.  How are your disks laid out?  Does
your system boot after you ran 'grub-install /dev/sda'?

> + /usr/bin/grub-mkimage -O i386-pc --output=/boot/grub/core.img --prefix=/boot/grub biosdisk ext2 part_msdos
> + /usr/sbin/grub-setup --directory=/boot/grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map /dev/sda
> + test -e /boot/grub/stage2
> + echo 'Installation finished. No error reported.'

Well, this is all clearly succeeding.  My guess is that you aren't
actually booting from /dev/sda and that there's some other core image
lying around somewhere which is out of date, but it's hard to guess at
more detail than that given the information available so far.

Please see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=586142#25
for general background on this class of problem.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]