Bug#540125: grub-pc: upgrade renders system unbootable

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 10:24:57AM +1000, Jayen wrote:
> Package: grub-pc
> Version: 1.96+20090725-1
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
> 
> 
> I know On i386-pc (and amd64), the grub package never updates the installed 
> version of GRUB automatically.  However, this has rendered the system 
> unbootable for me twice now.  I know I'm running something unstable, but users 
> should NOT be expected to know how to fix an unbootable system.  There should 
> at least be a debconf question of whether to run grub-install.
> 
> The error I'm getting is "Unknown command: initrd" similar to #513592 and 
> #497791 (and probably others).

What happens if you comment out the "search" commands?  (all of them)

And if you add "insmod linux" at the beginning of grub.cfg?

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