Bug#487755: #487755 grub2 does not install on boot sector of the current (or a mounted) partition

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Mittwoch, den 15.10.2008, 08:37 +0200 schrieb Holger Fischer:

Hello,

> Maybe I said it before: Can't this be a problem of a shared library
> grub2 uses to write  it's changes (so not a problem of grub2 itself)?
> - Only an idea.

This is very weird, I can't reproduce this at all though I only tested
this with glibc 2.8 currently in experimental and with current debian
sid kernel and vanilla 2.6.27-git2.

grub-setup uses the low level API open()/write() with O_SYNC flag.

I looked over the manual of your mainboard to check if it has some sort
of bootsector proction which it seems it doestn't.

So I'm pretty clueless.
Maybe you could try with a livecd chrooted to your system if it happens
with it too?

-- 
Felix Zielcke