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

[Bharath Ramesh]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 2:34 AM, Felix Zielcke <fzielcke at z-51.de> wrote:
> Am Montag, den 18.08.2008, 23:06 -0400 schrieb Bharath Ramesh:
>> Sorry for a late reply.
>
> No problem.
>
>> I do not get the alloc
>> magic is broken error any more with grub2 and lvm.mod. Grub2 never
>> works if I have lvm.mod included.
>
> What do you mean with that? What is GRUB telling you?
> Does it go to rescue mode without showing any error message or do does
> it hang?

Before updating to 1.96+20080724-8 version it would just hang with it reading
"Welcome to Grub"

> Please try the freshly new uploaded 1.96+20080724-8 version.
> There was a bug in the LVM module that the error variable was given back
> to the upper layer so it goes to rescue mode even if it shouldn't in
> that case.
>

The freshly uploaded 1.96+20080724-8 version I end up with the rescue mode. I
have to manually load my kernel using the command line.

I hope this helps. Will do my best to provide you all the information I can.

>> I ran grub-emu with my grub.cfg
>> which I have attached with this email. I get the following error when
>> I use the grub.cfg in grub-emu
>>
>> "error: invalid arch independent ELF magic"
>
>> I have attached grub.cfg along with this email. grub.cfg_broken gives
>> the above error while grub.cfg_working is the only working config file
>> to make my laptop boot.
> This is normal grub-emu doestn't support modules at all but lvm.mod is
> compiled in, so you don't need to load it to use your lvm devices with
> e.g. `ls' command.
>
>> Once again I am sorry for this late reply.
>
> Once again no problem :)
> A `late' reply like yours is better then getting none at all for months.
>
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