Bug#477304: Debian bug #477304 Grub fails to find /boot/boot/grub/device.map

[Nick Hastings]

Hi,

* Felix Zielcke <fzielcke at z-51.de> [080720 21:27]:
> Is this still an issue? Can you please try it with grub-pc 
> 1.96+20080704-2 currently in testing/unstable

Seems to be no errors but it seems that /boot/boot/ is being completely
ignored. Please see the results of the install, linux-image reconfigure
and file listing under /boot below.


$ sudo aptitude install grub-pc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  grub-pc 
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  grub{a} 
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 138 not
upgraded.
Need to get 1101kB of archives. After unpacking 2044kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] 
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://hat.kek.jp lenny/main grub-pc 1.96+20080704-2 [1101kB]
Fetched 1101kB in 4s (255kB/s)    
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 318733 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing grub ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Selecting previously deselected package grub-pc.
(Reading database ... 318685 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking grub-pc (from .../grub-pc_1.96+20080704-2_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up grub-pc (1.96+20080704-2) ...
Reading package lists... Done             
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.24-1-686-bigmem
Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk.
Other valid candidates: mkinitramfs-kpkg mkinitrd.yaird
Running postinst hook script update-grub.
Updating /boot/grub/grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686-bigmem
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-686-bigmem
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
done

$ tree -Dt /boot
/boot
|-- [Jul 22  8:42]  grub
|   |-- [Jul 22  8:42]  grub.cfg
|   |-- [Jul 22  8:42]  device.map
|   |-- [Jul 22  8:41]  ascii.pff
|   -- [Jul 22  8:41]  debian-blueish-wallpaper-640x480.png
|-- [Jul 22  8:42]  initrd.img-2.6.24-1-686-bigmem
|-- [Jun 26 10:12]  initrd.img-2.6.24-1-686-bigmem.bak
|-- [May  8 13:50]  System.map-2.6.24-1-686-bigmem
|-- [May  8 13:50]  config-2.6.24-1-686-bigmem
|-- [May  8 13:49]  vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686-bigmem
|-- [Apr 24  4:24]  memtest86+.bin
|-- [Dec 16  2005]  boot
|   -- [Jul 22  8:48]  grub
|       |-- [Jun 17 16:41]  menu.lst
|       |-- [Jun 17 16:41]  menu.lst~
|       |-- [Apr 23 12:32]  stage2
|       |-- [Apr 23 12:32]  default
|       |-- [Apr 23 12:32]  e2fs_stage1_5
|       |-- [Apr 23 12:32]  fat_stage1_5
|       |-- [Apr 23 12:32]  jfs_stage1_5
|       |-- [Apr 23 12:32]  minix_stage1_5
|       |-- [Apr 23 12:32]  reiserfs_stage1_5
|       |-- [Apr 23 12:32]  stage1
|       |-- [Apr 23 12:32]  xfs_stage1_5
|       -- [Nov 28  2005]  device.map
-- [Jan 21  2004]  lost+found [error opening dir]


I think I will down grade to the old grub: I can currently afford the
time potentially needed to recover a possibly unbootable machine.

Cheers,

Nick.
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