Bug#554790: grub-pc: Upgrade fails with "missing symbol grub_zalloc", cannot boot

[Felix Zielcke]

retitle 554790 use /dev/disk/by-uuid (or similiar) for grub-pc/install_devices
thanks

Am Freitag, den 06.11.2009, 10:47 -0500 schrieb Bruce LaZerte:
> Installed grub2 and converted to ext4 some time ago (6-9 months?) and
> then left the PC alone. Just today, 5-Nov-09, did a full upgrade to
> the current testing
> Re-boot failed and I got the above grub error.
> Similar to Ubuntu bug  #408699 and Debian #541286 (closed).
> Following the Ubuntu instructions to fix it, it was necessary to
> (re)grub-install to the mbr from a recent System Rescue cd.
> I also did an update-grub before, just in case.
> 
> Cannot the upgrade process re-run grub-install/setup for the user? Or
> did I miss something? 

If you choose a device in the debconf prompt it does it already.
Run `sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc' to set/change it.

-- debconf information:
> * grub-pc/install_devices: /dev/hda

Currently it uses /dev/hda but seems like that isn't anymore the right
one for you or at least wasn't when grub-pc got the last time upgraded.


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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer