Bug#385814: Include patch for GNU GRUB bug #14407, partition table offset not reset when changing to CD

[Daniel R.]

Package: grub
Version: 0.97-13
Severity: important

Hello,

I am running Debian Etch (testing)

When I create a GRUB boot CD (using stage2_eltorito), as explained in GRUB's
web site, i find that I cannot load my hard drive kernel from grub Menu: for
example:

1. I boot with my GRUB CD (correct: it includes a menu.lst I customized for
this GRUB CD)
2. GRUB menu appears (correct: it correctly loads a splash image in my hard
drive)
3. I choose my hard drive kernel option...
4. GRUB tries to boot with it but gives: "Error 25: Disk read error"

However, if I manually (open GRUB command line) enter the same commands as 
defined in the previously selected menu option:

root (hd0,5)
kernel (hd0,5)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6
initrd (hd0,5)/initrd
boot

Then I can boot my hard drive kernel.

I have found that this bug may be related to problem I have just explained:
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=14407

So please address this issue in next GRUB release for debian. Thank you.


Daniel R.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to es_ES.UTF-8)

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5                  5.5-2       Shared libraries for terminal hand

grub recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information