Bug#496820: grub-pc in current installer snapshot fails with separate boot partition

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Mittwoch, den 27.08.2008, 11:45 -0700 schrieb Eric Anderson:

Hello,

> grub-pc fails to install as it is unable to read the file /boot/grub/core.img
> when used with a separate /boot partition a machine with a > 2TB disk.
> 
> The problem appears to be that grub-setup is looking for the file 
> /boot/grub/core.img, but since the filesystem is already /boot, it is unable 
> to find it.
> 
> A workaround is to run ln -s . /target/boot/boot after the installer
> fails, 
> or ln -s . /boot/boot in the chroot environment the grub-install
> script
> runs in, but this is almost assuredly the wrong solution so I'm not 
> making a patch to do this.
> 

I just tried it out now myself in VMware with a default disk size of 8
GiB.

This seems to be related or maybe it is even the same as 489287

I have used the current daily debian-testing-amd64-businesscard.iso
from 29-Aug-2008 00:04
and installed `testing' with a seperate /boot partition at the end of
the disk.

A `msdos' partition table is no problem at all with a seperate /boot.
But `gpt', which has to be used for > 2 TB, is the problem.

-- 
Felix Zielcke