Bug#451701: grub: A small bit of additional information

[Samuel Colin]

Package: grub
Followup-For: Bug #451701


Hi,
I was just bitten by the aforementioned bug. 
The machine where I saw the problem appear ran a 2.6.18 kernel with very old
grub stage files (timestamp showed something like March 2003).
I updated to a 2.6.24 kernel ('cause of the vmsplice problem), rebooted, and
couldn't see a thing because the machine is actually my gateway at home,
with no screen attached.
Making a grub-install with the grub version from Lenny solved the bug. 

But the conditions in which I discovered the problem make me suggest to add
to the installation scripts of kernels >=2.6.23 a warning (mine was built
with kernel-package and linux-source-2.6.24)

Oh well, no rebooting-remotely-with-a-new-kernel-and-fingers-crossed for me
today :-D

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.7-10         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.6+20080308-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand

grub recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information