Bug#535539: grub-pc: unknown argument "--no-floppy" prevents boot

[Kevin Mitchell]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.96+20090702-1
Severity: important

After running update-grub with the version listed above, I find menu entries like the following example:

menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.30.014" {
        set root=(hd0,2)
        search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 234cc6d9-e0ef-4105-b817-f1c83edbc1a2
        linux   /vmlinuz-2.6.30.014 root=/dev/sda5 ro vga=792 selinux=0 enforcing=0 resume=/dev/sda3  clocksource=hpet quiet 
}

When I attempt to boot this entry, I get

Unknown argument "--no-floppy"

I can make it boot again if I edit the entry and remove --no-floppy.

Kevin


-- Package-specific info:

*********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts
/dev/root / xfs rw,noatime,noquota 0 0
/dev/sda7 /home xfs rw,noatime,noquota 0 0
/dev/sda7 /i386/home xfs rw,noatime,noquota 0 0
/dev/root /i386/tmp xfs rw,noatime,noquota 0 0
/dev/root /i386/etc/apt xfs rw,noatime,noquota 0 0
*********************** END /proc/mounts

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable-i386'), (500, 'transitional-i386'), (500, 'transitional'), (500, 'testing-i386'), (500, 'stable-i386'), (500, 'testing'), (400, 'stable'), (300, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-i386')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30.014 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.26          Debian configuration management sy
ii  grub-common              1.96+20090702-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 
ii  libc6                    2.9-18          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  ucf                      3.0018          Update Configuration File: preserv

grub-pc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages grub-pc suggests:
pn  desktop-base                  <none>     (no description available)
ii  genisoimage                   9:1.1.9-1  Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem
ii  os-prober                     1.29       utility to detect other OSes on a 

-- debconf information:
  grub-pc/linux_cmdline:
  grub-pc/chainload_from_menu.lst: true
  grub-pc/install_devices: