Bug#341381: grub: Grub shell cannot find hard disk

[Sven Joachim]

Package: grub
Version: 0.97-1
Severity: important

After updating Grub to version 0.97-1, "grub-install /dev/hda" failed
with the error message

The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly.

The following log is left in /tmp:


     GNU GRUB  version 0.97  (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> dump (hd0,2)/grub/stage1 /tmp/grublr2v3E

Error 21: Selected disk does not exist
grub> quit


Running grub manually gives the same "Error 21" when typing "root (hd0,2)",
for instance.  I am not certain how severe this problem is; since I had
used Grub before and the stage* files have been correctly copied to the
directory /boot/grub by grub-install, it did not break anything for me.
But it could be a _big_ problem if Grub is not yet installed on the hard
disk. :-(

The file /boot/grub/device.map looks as follows:

(fd0)	/dev/fd0
(hd0)	/dev/hda


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
   APT prefers unstable
   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (3, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.32
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-8    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                   5.5-1      Shared libraries for terminal hand

grub recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information