Bug#411109: update-grub/grub-set-default throws an error, if /grub dir does not exist

[dorileo]

Hi Andreas

On Friday 16 February 2007 09:12, Andreas John wrote:
> Package: grub
> Version: sid
> Severity: medium
>
> Hi,
> after dist-upgrading my sid, update-grub did not run successfully.
> The reason for that was that it called indirectly 'grub-set-default',
> which looked for a grub dir on / ! (not /boot or in my case /boot/boot
> ,as I run traditionally an own partition for /boot).

update-grub as far as I can see has actually a problem when calling 
grub-set-default, it does not inform the root-directory parameter, please 
take a look at bug #412334 for an example. It means that update-grub does not 
try to find the root-directory and surely inform it, the script tries to find 
the grub-root-directory not the root-directory so update-grub cant inform it 
of course. My change is to make grub-set-default find the grub-root-directory 
in another way if root-directory is not informed.

I attached a patch to the quoted bug and will attach it here again for tests, 
could you apply the patch and see how it works?

Thanks

--
Dorileo
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