Bug#514673: grub2: Command initrd not found

Thomas Schweikle tps at vr-web.de
Tue Feb 10 14:02:45 UTC 2009


Thomas Schweikle schrieb:
> Felix Zielcke schrieb:
>> forcemerge 497791 514673
>> thanks
>> 
>> Am Dienstag, den 10.02.2009, 00:08 +0100 schrieb Thomas Schweikle:
>> 
>>> 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!
>> 
>> Please see bug 512787 and 497791.
>> The problem is the `search --fs-uuid' line.
>> It seems like an old version of grub2 had a bug in the parser which is
>> already fixed, but grub-install is not run automatically on an upgrade.
>> Which reportbug should normally tell you if you report a bug against
>> grub-pc.
> 
> Hmmmm. Can't find any of these bugs 512787 or 497791. Only "Not
> found" messages!

OK. Found it. "grub-install /dev/sda" fixes the issue. The system is
running again!


-- 
Thomas

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