Bug#475718: Bug #475718 grub gets confused by hybrid apple/pc partmap

[Chris Knadle]

On Tuesday 22 July 2008, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> >> Is this still a problem with grub2 1.96+20080704-2 currently in
> >> testing/unstable ?
> >
> >   Yes, unfortunately it is.  I just tested 0.97-41 and it still has the
> > problem.  The last version that doesn't have the problem is grub-0.97-32
> > -- I've been having to force downgrade back to that version and then keep
> > the package on hold.
>
> Well, the old grub-legacy won't have much bugfixes anymore.

   I'm only holding the package back in order to have a local system to test a 
potential fix with.  ;-)  It doesn't matter to me which version of grub gets 
fixed for this -- but one of them does; preferably the version that will be 
the default upgrade path for Debian Lenny, otherwise there's a potential for 
a few to get a big surprise during and after the upgrade.

> > I just tried, grub2 1.96+20080704-2 -- I can't even complete installing
> > it
>
> Thanks for trying it with the new grub2

   Yep -- I'll try it again without the chainload option to see what happens.

> >Also, either grub2 and/or grub2-pc did not purge cleanly; it left a big
> > mess of files in /boot/grub/ after both were purged, which I had to
> > manually pick through and delete those
>
> Please see #470400 [0]

   Ah okay -- thanks for pointing that out.

   -- Chris

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Chris Knadle
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