Bug#540572: After moving to grub-pc memtest86+ does not launch.

[Vasilis Vasaitis]

tags 540572 patch
clone 540572 -1
reassign 540572 memtest86+
reassign -1 memtest86
thanks

  Hi,

  In the scripts supplied with memtest86+ and memtest86 for
/etc/grub.d, there are actually three distinct problems to be found:

  1. They source the deprecated update-grub_lib instead of
grub-mkconfig_lib, which generates a warning when update-grub is run
(see #522345 and #523114).

  2. They use the linux command, which fails to load memtest86+ and
memtest86; instead, the linux16 command is needed (see #539907).

  3. They fail to work correctly when /boot is a separate partition
from /.

  As the reporter mentions, for (1) and (2) there is a patch in
#539907 that addresses them. However, for memtest86+/memtest86 to work
correctly in his system, (3) must be addressed too. I'm attaching
patches for the /etc/grub.d files that fix all three problems (they
incorporate the fixes of the aforementioned patch and also fix the
additional problem).

Thanks,
Vasilis

-- 
Vasilis Vasaitis
"A man is well or woe as he thinks himself so."


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