Bug#462159: grub-pc: doesn't boot: "free magic is broken"

[Robert Millan]

tags 462159 patch
thanks

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 07:24:50PM +0100, Piotr Kaczuba wrote:
> W dniu 23.01.2008 22:52, Piotr Kaczuba pisze:
> [...]
> >I will try it but not sooner than at the weekend.
> [...]
> 
> I've finally managed to attach a second computer via serial cable and do 
> a debug run of grub. I'm attaching the log. The command that has 
> triggered the reboot is "linux (hd0," followed by a TAB key press.
> I've used grub-pc 1.95+20080128-1 as the problem is still there in this 
> version, too.
> 
> Despite of what I wrote earlier, grub-pc_1.95+20071101-1_i386 exhibits 
> the same problem when booting with grub.cfg in place ("free magic is 
> broken") although it hasn't in the beginning. I think it may has 
> something to do with the content of grub.cfg (which I recreated with 
> grub-update) or its physical location on the disk.

Yuck.  xfs strikes again, like some kind of curse or so.

Please could you try the attached patch?

-- 
Robert Millan

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