Bug#500112: grub-pc: grub is failing to start at boot (go to rescue mode immediately) when using jfs.mod (prefix issue)

[Benoit Hamet]

Hi again,

>> This was already discussed and solved upstream some time ago. In
>> short :
>> when using grub-pc with the jfs file system, grub fails when starting
>> and fallback in the rescue mode. This is due to a bug (AFAIK) in the
>> jfs way of treating trailing /
>> A possible workaround is to remove the ending / in the grub-install
>> script, when building the command line of grub-mkpackage --prefix=...'
> 
> I do remember talking about this with Robert, but in the context of a
> cosmetical problem not about JFS and I haven't found anything yet on the
> grub-devel archives.
> 
>> IIRC the experimental package solve this problem (20080831).
> 
> Yes it does, Robert commited this `workaround' on 2008-08-02 upstream.
> So closing the report then, it'll go to unstable after lenny is
> released. This doestn't seem that important for me to fix it for lenny.
Hmm, perhaps it wasn't clear, but this render the booting on jfs
partition unable to work ... in case of remote server, it could be
problematic ... so I don't see why waiting for lenny release, since this
will probably be reopened when servers will use lenny in production (ok,
they're probably not using grub2 ?). Anyway, do whatever you want, I
fixed my own grub-install, hope that nobody else will hit this one :).


> 
> Feel free to bring that double slash problem with JFS up again upstream
> on grub-devel at gnu.org if it's still a more general problem.
for me it's working in new releases, so no needs to bring this up upstream.

Regards,

Benoît.

PS: is it normal to only receive close notification and not the
discussions on the bug ?