Bug#345931: grub 0.97 doesn't work on several machines

[Steve Langasek]

reopen 345931
severity 345931 serious
tags 345931 upstream
thanks

On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 09:01:01AM +1100, Jason Thomas wrote:
> close 345931
> thanks

> grub-install copies the various stage* files into /boot/grub. grub shell
> does not.

> If you do not copy the stage* files then they will be incompatible with
> the boot sector that is installed.

> grub-install is the recommeneded method to install.

Surely this is still a bug in the grub shell for failing to notice that it
had rendered the system unbootable?

I think this bug qualifies as "serious"; I think plenty of people are going
to be upset when the grub shell toasts their system without warning.  If you
downgrade it, I'd appreciate if you would offer an explanation why you think
this is an ok bug to release with given its non-obvious consequences; but
please don't close it, as it does refer to a real bug.

I've already talked with Otavio about getting 0.97 into testing in spite of
this bug, since there are other bugs in testing that are at least as
significant.

Cheers,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
vorlon at debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/
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