Bug#488235: grub-pc: update-grub should use unicode.pff in /boot/grub not the one in /usr/share/grub

Robert Millan rmh at aybabtu.com
Sun Jun 29 12:14:24 UTC 2008


On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:43:57AM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Package: grub-pc
> Version: 1.96+20080626-1
> Severity: minor
> 
> update-grub by default uses the unicode.pff in /usr/share/grub which
> isn't working for me, because my / is ext4 which grub can't
> handle (yet)
> Luckly it just doenst't load the gfxterm and vbe module and boots
> without problems
> If I remove the /usr/share prefix, the set root and search command in
> grub.cfg as you can see below it works
> As I installed grub the unicode.pff got already copied to /boot/grub

postinst is supposed to copy unicode.pff to /boot/grub when / is unaccessible.
What does "grub-probe -t fs /" return?

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