Bug#506008: [grub-invaders] Fails to boot

[Didier Raboud]

Le mercredi 19 novembre 2008 16:30:11 Robert Millan, vous avez écrit :
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 02:19:38PM +0100, Didier Raboud wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > from reading the changelog.gz, I confirm that this should have made it to
> > Lenny. After purging and reinstalling grub-pc from Lenny, 10_linux is
> > still producing a similar entry as above.
> >
> > The mentioned bug (number ?) is then still open. I fear to try the change
> > because if invaders fails, what tells me that my boot won't fail too ?
>
> It doesn't matter.  It's a small bugfix, not worth backporting it.

It is in the changelog.gz, but the change is not in my package (my 10_linux is 
attached).

> > What I see here on my laptop is that with the
> > prepare_grub_to_access_device() outside of the entries, it works and with
> > it being inside the entry for "invaders", it fails.
>
> Sounds like a GRUB bug to me.  What version of grub-pc are you using? (make
> sure you have run grub-install on that version)

Done. 

$ LANG=C apt-cache policy grub-pc
grub-pc:
  Installed: 1.96+20080724-12
  Candidate: 1.96+20080724-12
  Version table:
     1.96+20081108-1 0
         50 ftp://mirror.switch.ch experimental/main Packages
 *** 1.96+20080724-12 0
        700 ftp://mirror.switch.ch testing/main Packages
        600 ftp://mirror.switch.ch unstable/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


> Also, check:  grep multiboot /boot/grub/command.lst

$ grep multiboot /boot/grub/command.lst
module: multiboot
multiboot: multiboot

After a closer look... The changed 10_linux is in the grub-common package in 
experimental.

What stays is that in the actual state of things, grub-invaders is not bootable 
with grub-pc in Lenny.

Regards, 

OdyX

-- 
Didier Raboud, proud Debian user.
CH-1802 Corseaux
didier at raboud.com
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