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

[Nick Hastings]

Hi,

* Felix Zielcke <fzielcke at z-51.de> [080723 05:04]:
> Hello,
>
> From: "Nick Hastings" <hastings at hep.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
>
>> 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.
>
> I used grub-legacy long ago, and I think I never used it with a /boot
> partition. But I did use grub2 with a seperate /boot partition. It
> works fine with just /grub instead of /boot/grub

Well, I was very suspicious that it had left my system in an unbootable
state, with nothing in /usr/share/doc/grub-common to indicate how to make
it bootable ... no README.Debian etc

>> I think I will downgrade to the old grub
>
> Please don't, please try grub2 :) If you call grub-install then the
> *.img and *.mod files get copied to /boot/grub/ which it needs. 

Ok done and it works: thanks for the new boot loader.

Please note that I think it is vitally important to include a
README.Debian file that includes at least the following instructions

1. grub-install "(hd0)"
2. update-grub

It seems that if the above steps aren't taken the user will be left with
an unbootable system. Should I file a bug report for this?

Thanks again,

Nick.
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