Bug#487755: grub2: behaviour changed, with 1.96+20080621-1 I get an error message

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 08:32:05AM +0200, Holger Fischer wrote:
> Package: grub2
> Version: 1.96+20080621-1
> Followup-For: Bug #487755
> 
> With Version 1.96+20080617-1 grub-install ran through and worked in a
> virtual machine directly after install, but not after a reboot anymore.
> 
> with version 1.96+20080621-1 I get this
> :~$ mount /dev/sda7 /1
> :~$ grub-install /dev/sda6                                                                                     
> grub-setup: error: Cannot read `/boot/grub/core.img' correctly                                                                         
> :~$ grub-install --root-directory=/1 /dev/sda7
> grub-setup: error: Cannot read `/boot/grub/core.img' correctly        

This sounds a lot like filesystem corruption.  If you don't have backups,
I suggest you don't unmount this filesystem.  You might be unable to mount
it again.

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Robert Millan

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