Bug#467501: submitter address changed (Stealing this bug ;))

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:29:40AM +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 04:04:07PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 01:16:58PM +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 02:11:51PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 09:55:22AM +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > It's not fixed, but behaviour appears to be slightly different.
> > > > > 
> > > > > root is getting detected as (hd0,1) while prefix is ending up set to
> > > > > (hd0,1)(md0)/boot/grub/ and I'm still getting dropped to the rescue
> > > > > shell.
> > > > 
> > > > Which version did you use for that test?
> > > 
> > > grub-pc 1.96-20080704-2 (installed from unstable/amd64 this morning).
> > 
> > Which device did you install grub to?
> 
> Um. I don't think I got to specify. I just did "aptitude install
> grub-pc" and then chose the chainloading option from the existing grub1
> install. I didn't get as far as actually replacing the grub1 install as
> chainloading didn't work.

Then how come you were using 1.96-20080704-2 ?  Did you manualy propagate
the files to /boot without calling grub-install?

If not, you weren't using 1.96-20080704-2.  Either purge grub2 completely
(from /boot too) and start over, or run grub-install on your disk.

-- 
Robert Millan

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