Bug#296024: Can't install grub on USB

[Harald Dunkel]

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Package: grub
Version: 0.95+cvs20040624-14

Platform: amd64 (gcc-3.4)


Hi folks,

If I try to install grub as described on

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Installing%20GRUB%20natively

on an USB memory stick, then grub dies with a core dump.


# sfdisk -l /dev/sdd

Disk /dev/sdd: 1000 cylinders, 16 heads, 32 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 262144 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

    Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdd1   *      0+    998     999-    255743+  83  Linux
/dev/sdd2          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
/dev/sdd3          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
/dev/sdd4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
# mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt
# grub
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.


     GNU GRUB  version 0.95  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

  [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first word, TAB
    lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
    completions of a device/filename. ]
grub> root (hd1,0)
root (hd1,0)
  Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83
grub> setup (hd1)
setup (hd1)
  Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
  Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
  Checking if "/boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5" exists... yes
  Running "embed /boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5 (hd1)"... failed (this is not fatal)
  Running "embed /boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5 (hd1,0)"... failed (this is not fatal)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)


(install-grub doesn't work either. It doesn't print an error message,
but the boot sector is not touched.)


Regards

Harri

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