Bug#514673: grub2: Command initrd not found

[Thomas Schweikle]

Package: grub2
Version: 1.96+20080724-14
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system


grub starts, but then stops with the message command initrd not found.
The system remains unbootable. If you have an older version of grub
available on CD or FD you can use this to boot the system. The latest
version of grub is indeed missing the command initrd. This isn't
documented anywhere and it seems as if this command was canceled
in favour of some other idea. Because of missing docs I was not able
to find out what new idea this was!

-- Package-specific info:

*********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts
/dev/disk/by-uuid/4bed45bb-beb8-4ee4-9d1e-64b3d31c2e2a / ext3
rw,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 rw,errors=continue,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/mapper/vg00-lv00 /opt ext3 rw,errors=continue,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/mapper/vg00-lv01 /home ext3 rw,errors=continue,data=ordered 0 0
*********************** END /proc/mounts

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0)	/dev/sda
*********************** END /boot/grub/device.map

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/grub.cfg
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/update-grub using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
set default=0
set timeout=5
set root=(hd0,3)
search --fs-uuid --set 4bed45bb-beb8-4ee4-9d1e-64b3d31c2e2a
if font /usr/share/grub/ascii.pff ; then
  set gfxmode=640x480
  insmod gfxterm
  insmod vbe
  terminal gfxterm
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set root=(hd0,1)
search --fs-uuid --set c4b68b9f-38b1-4338-8fa6-86c8dfc6792a
insmod png
if background_image /grub/moreblue-orbit-grub.png ; then
  set color_normal=black/black
  set color_highlight=magenta/black
else
  set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
  set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_hurd ###
### END /etc/grub.d/10_hurd ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.26-1-686" {
	set root=(hd0,1)
	search --fs-uuid --set c4b68b9f-38b1-4338-8fa6-86c8dfc6792a
	linux	/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686
root=UUID=4bed45bb-beb8-4ee4-9d1e-64b3d31c2e2a ro vga=0x314
	initrd	/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.26-1-686 (single-user mode)" {
	set root=(hd0,1)
	search --fs-uuid --set c4b68b9f-38b1-4338-8fa6-86c8dfc6792a
	linux	/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686
root=UUID=4bed45bb-beb8-4ee4-9d1e-64b3d31c2e2a ro single vga=0x314
	initrd	/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file is an example on how to add custom entries
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
*********************** END /boot/grub/grub.cfg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub2 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.24           Debian configuration
management sy
ii  grub-pc                 1.96+20080724-14 GRand Unified
Bootloader, version

grub2 recommends no packages.

grub2 suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  grub2/numbering_scheme_transition:

-- 
Thomas

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