Bug#558312: error: grub_gettext not found

[Felix Zielcke]

reopen 558312
reassign 558312 grub-pc
# I knew we have already an open report for this
forcemerge 554790 558312
thanks

Am Samstag, den 28.11.2009, 07:42 +0100 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Felix Zielcke wrote:
> > I just tried it out in a vm.
> > Installed squeeze beta3-1 where grub-pc/install_devices is not set
> at
> > all. Then ran grub-install /dev/sda. Rebooted. Then upgraded to
> current
> > sid version. Not running grub-install and neither it was ran by the
> > postinst.
> > And a reboot worked still fine.
> 
> I had purged and reinstalled grub in between and I can't reproduce the
> problem
> anymore.

Ok. I just assume it's the grub-pc/install_devices problem.

> Nonetheless, if I understand you resp. Robert correctly, it is no
> longer
> possible to boot from a rescue disc, mount the root partition
> manually, do a
> chroot and do a grub-install? That would be very unfortunate. Or did I
> misread
> Roberts answer?

You did. It's still possible and recommended to chroot to the installed
system just as before.
The only thing you need to pay attention that you install to the
MBR/disk device of the disk your BIOS boots from.

If grub-intall gets run on a device where you don't boot from, then all
the modules in /boot/grub gets updated but the embed core.img which
contains GRUB's kernel doestn't get updated.
And so it gets out of sync.

> Michael
> 
> 

-- 
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer
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