Bug#460571: grub-pc: On upgrade, does not configure Windows entries in menu grub.cfg

Peter Hicks peter.hicks at poggs.co.uk
Sun Jan 13 17:39:09 UTC 2008


Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.95+20080107-1
Severity: important

After upgrading and replacing grub with grub-pc, I found no menu entry for
Windows XP appeared in the new list - although the other Linux kernel
entries and memtest86+ were correctly added.

-- Package-specific info:

*********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
none /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
none /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/sda1 / ext3 rw,noatime,nodiratime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec 0 0
/dev/sda5 /usr xfs rw,noatime,nodiratime,nobarrier,logbufs=8,noquota 0 0
/dev/sda6 /var xfs rw,noatime,nodiratime,nobarrier,logbufs=8,noquota 0 0
/dev/sda7 /home xfs rw,noatime,nodiratime,nobarrier,logbufs=8,noquota 0 0
/tmp /tmp tmpfs rw 0 0
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0
*********************** END /proc/mounts

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0)	/dev/sda
*********************** END /boot/grub/device.map

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/grub.cfg
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/update-grub using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
set default=0
set timeout=5
set root=(hd0,1)
terminal console
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_hurd ###
### END /etc/grub.d/10_hurd ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.24-rc7-poggs" {
	linux	(hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-rc7-poggs root=/dev/sda1 ro 
	initrd	(hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-rc7-poggs
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.24-rc7-poggs (single-user mode)" {
	linux	(hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-rc7-poggs root=/dev/sda1 ro single 
	initrd	(hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-rc7-poggs
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.24-rc6-poggs" {
	linux	(hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-rc6-poggs root=/dev/sda1 ro 
	initrd	(hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-rc6-poggs
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.24-rc6-poggs (single-user mode)" {
	linux	(hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-rc6-poggs root=/dev/sda1 ro single 
	initrd	(hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-rc6-poggs
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.24-rc4-poggs" {
	linux	(hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-rc4-poggs root=/dev/sda1 ro 
	initrd	(hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-rc4-poggs
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.24-rc4-poggs (single-user mode)" {
	linux	(hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-rc4-poggs root=/dev/sda1 ro single 
	initrd	(hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-rc4-poggs
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
	linux	(hd0,1)/boot/memtest86+.bin
}
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
*********************** END /boot/grub/grub.cfg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-rc7-poggs (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  base-files                    4.0.2      Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.18     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                         2.7-5      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  liblzo2-2                     2.02-3     data compression library

grub-pc recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
* grub-pc/chainload_from_menu.lst: true





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