Bug#512787: upgrade makes system unbootable

[David Riebenbauer]

* dann frazier <dannf at debian.org> [2009-01-28 12:49]:
> Package: grub-pc
> Version: 1.96+20080724-14
> Severity: grave
> 
> hey,
>  After a recent upgrade, my laptop became unbootable. I don't have
> local access to the machine rigth now, so unfortunately the preboot
> information will have to come from memory.
> 
> According to dpkg.log, the upgrade was this one:
>  2009-01-20 22:37:55 upgrade grub-pc 1.96+20080724-12 1.96+20080724-14
> 
> At boot time, grub complains that 'initrd' is an invalid option and
> refuses to boot.
> 
> My boot entry looks like this:
>         set root=(hd0,1)
>         search --fs-uuid --set e7bf09bb-8d63-4bbb-84d8-4ada743f643f
>         linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=UUID=e7bf09bb-8d63-4bbb-84d8-4ada743f643f ro  
>         initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686
> 
> I found through experimentation that deleting the first two lines
> allows my system to boot again.

Just FYI, I got the exact same problem. Well, except that I got local
access sto the machine. But the error message is the same, and
removing the se3arch line makes it work again.

However, running, grub-install and update-grub made things work again.

Regards,
David



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