Bug#494589: fix for /boot/grub/core.img issue

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 12:21:14PM -0400, Edward Allcutt wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
> >We believe that these three bugs are all caused by the same problem, which 
> >is
> >now fixed in latest upload to experimental (1.96+20080826-1).
> Tested using 1.96+20080831-1, 1.96+20080826-1 seems to have disappeared 
> from the Debian changelog.

Actually, I think I meant 1.96+20080831-1.  I must have gotten confused.

> >If you can, please try that version and confirm that the problem is fixed 
> >for
> >you.  If it's not, tell us about it as soon as you can.
> It seems to work fine. I disabled the bios_grub flag on the gpt 
> partition I'd created; I assume this will force grub to fall back to 
> using a blocklist. I then ran grub-install and it reported success. 
> Booting had no issues either although that was never a problem.
> 
> I've now switched back to using the bios_grub partition as that seems a 
> far superior solution.

Great, thanks.

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