Bug#482345: grub-install fails to read /boot/grub/stage1

[Nicolas Évrard]

Package: grub
Version: 0.97-39
Severity: important


Hello,

I'm trying to switch from lilo to grub on my macbook.
As per [1], I made sure the gpt/mbr table are in sync:

kinder:/etc# gptsync /dev/sda

Current GPT partition table:
 #      Start LBA      End LBA  Type
 1             40       409639  EFI System (FAT)
 2         409640     88490023  Mac OS X HFS+
 3       88752168    176832551  EFI System (FAT)
 4      176832552    234441607  Basic Data

Current MBR partition table:
 # A    Start LBA      End LBA  Type
 1              1       409639  ee  EFI Protective
 2         409640     88490023  af  Mac OS X HFS+
 3 *     88752168    176832551  ef  EFI System (FAT)
 4      176832552    234441607  0b  FAT32

Status: Tables are synchronized, no need to sync.

Anyway grub-install fails to read /boot/grub/stage1

kinder:~# grub-install "(hd0)"
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly.

Using find in the grub shell does not work either:

grub> find stage1

Error 15: File not found

grub> find /boot/grub/stage1

Error 15: File not found

grub> 



[1] http://wiki.debian.org/MacBook#head-65f7d7e28fb2e49e743d0de9516b6a7733718eb4 


-- Package-specific info:

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0)	/dev/sda
*********************** END /boot/grub/device.map

*********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts
/dev/root / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/root /dev/.static/dev ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sda2 /mnt/mac hfsplus ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,umask=22,uid=0,gid=0,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sda4 /mnt/win vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
*********************** END /proc/mounts

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  grub-common              1.96+20080512-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 

grub recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information