Bug#494589: grub-pc: grub-install fails on GPT volume

[Edward Allcutt]

Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 10.08.2008, 16:22 -0400 schrieb Edward Allcutt:
>> I looked at the changelog for 1.96+20080724-6 from sid but it doesn't
>> seem to contain anything relevant.
> 
> You could try current upstream SVN[0], which is a bit more recent (i.e.
> last change today) then the 0724-X which we currently stick for lenny.
> The 0730-1 in experimental isn't that much newer as you can see and it
> has not a few bugfixes backported from upstream for the recent 0724-X
> releases.
Just built the latest upstream. Again, grub-fstest cmp seems to work 
fine but grub-setup fails with:
grub-setup: info: couldn't open the core image
grub-setup: info: error message = file not found
grub-setup: error: Cannot read `/boot/grub/core.img' correctly

I've also noticed that when using grub-emu I get other errors:
grub> insmod (hd0,1)/grub/gpt.mod
error: invalid arch independent ELF magic

For all I know this is "normal" but it seemed worth mentioning.

> The best would be probable if you could reproduce with a small
> filesystem image and would send that to grub-devel at gnu.org, you need to
> be subscribed though.
Would `dd bs=512 if=/dev/sda1 | gzip >sda1` be sufficient as the 
filesystem image or would the GPT table be necessary too?

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Edward Allcutt
Network Operations