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

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 09:58:29PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> writes:

> > 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 don't think so. If you're using grub's shell you need know what
> you're doing since it isn't indeed to be used for enduser.

Er, but I do know what I'm doing; I'm telling grub to reinstall a boot
block.  What I *don't* know is that grub is going to silently fail to
ascertain that the stage files on disk aren't compatible with the commands
being run.  Why does the grub shell even bother to look for the stage2
loader on disk, for instance, if it's not going to verify that it's usable?

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Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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