Bug#462835: Bug #462835 grub-pc: alloc magic is broken

[Felix Zielcke]

I'm a bit unsure if 28 days are enough to wait for a reply, maybe you're
in holidays somewhere or my mail just landed in the spam filter.
So please don't get me wrong.

`alloc magic is broken' is important to fix, but unfortunately not easy
to trace down.

I just want to make sure if this still happens for you.
grub2 is actively developed so it can be that the original cause of this
has been fixed in the meanwhile.
The problem maybe has only to do with lvm.mod but isn't directly located
in there.
So please test this with at least the current lenny version (1.96+20080724-7)
If you still have problems, then it would be good if you test current
upstream SVN. [0]

>From your last mail on April:

> I am still having problems with grub2.

What problems do you have? Still this `alloc magic' with lvm?

> Is there any particular way that grub-emu should be called.

Maybe the mail from Robert got lost, just run `grub-emu'.
The lvm.mod is compiled into it so it can be that it just crashes on
startup in your case.

`grub-emu' works similiar to real GRUB, you get the menu displayed and
can press `c' for the command line.
And then you can type GRUB commands to it, for example `help' to get the
list.

[0] svn co svn://svn.sv.gnu.org/grub/trunk/grub2