Bug#473543: grub-common: if grub.cfg is to big grub-pc (and maybe others) fails to load it and reboot infinitely

[Alban Browaeys]

Package: grub-common
Version: 1.96+20080228-1
Severity: important

While testing a lot of kernels I found that if I have more than around
25 of them with long name (git versions) grub fails to load grub.cfg at
boot and restart the computer. 

I don't know if this is the number of lines or the size of grub.cfg that
matters but it is fully reproducible here.

One can just copy n paste lines in grub.cfg to reproduce.

Best regards
Alban


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-rc7-00025-gacaef06-dirty (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub-common depends on:
ii  base-files                    4.0.3      Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  libc6                         2.7-10     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

grub-common recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information