Bug#236093: grub: Boot 'stages' not installed correctly.

[Paul Schulz]

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Package: grub
Version: 0.93+cvs20031021-8
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

After a installation[1], on reboot the system does not boot.
This is on a freshly configured disk, parition and filesystem.

It looks like the BIOS passes control to the GRUB stage1, a couple
of blank lines are printed onto the screen, and the system hangs.

An older version of GRUB can be used to fix the system, after
booting from floppy.

[1] - The install process was:
    boot from cdrom (custom)
    partition the disk=20
    format the partition
    mount the filesystem
    untar a root filesystem (including grub config)
    chroot into filesystem and run grub.
 =20
  This previously worked with an older version of the 'stable' GRUB
  package.
 =20
 =20
  system was insalled

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.21-pre5
Locale: LANG=3DC, LC_CTYPE=3DC

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-11   GNU C Library: Shared
libraries an
ii  libncurses5               5.3.20030719-5 Shared libraries for
terminal hand

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