Bug#470400: This bug has bitten me...

[Henk Koster]

This bug has recently bitten me in an unexpected manner! I had just done
a new installation of Debian testing on my MacBook Pro with GUID
partition table (GPT), using the 6 August 2008
testing-amd64-netinst.iso. Towards the end of the installation, the
installer automatically installed new Grub (grub-pc) to the MBR of the
internal HD, but (after resynching GPT and the MBR partition table) then
it produced the error message

error: not a regular file
Entering rescue mode...

I knew that old Grub would work, so I set up a chroot, purged the
grub-pc package, installed the older grub package, used update-grub and
grub-install and rebooted (again after synching the partition tables).
What? The same error...

It wasn't until after I just emptied the /boot/grub directory and
reinstalled grub, etc, that all was well and my new Debian could be
booted. Several hours later, I might add...

Mind you, the Debian installer should have asked me whether I wanted to
have grub-pc installed, I filed bug #494293 on that. The earlier
response to the current bug underlines the importance of my bug.


-- 
Henk Koster
"Behavioral axioms are right, but agents make mistakes."
Attributed to L.J. Savage