Bug#557992: grub-pc: Booting is completely broken

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Sonntag, den 29.11.2009, 00:22 +0100 schrieb Paul Seelig:
> Well, if upgrading to 25-1 does not by itself result in a working boot
> configuration, it defintely shouldn't be the user who should be held
> responsible to make sure that it works.  As an end user, i do expect
> that the upgrade does work without any further intervention. If 25-1
> does not work although you think it should, then it is simply broken.

Well we need more information how it's broken. Maybe it already helps if
you would just attach the 25-1 generated grub.cfg
In the 24-1 one there was a syntax error in it which completely broke
our parser. But unfortunately nobody thought that the grub.cfg could be
just wrong and not the C code in GRUB itself.

> For what it's worth, i didn't run any manual grub-install while before
> upgrading to 25-1. In case it is required for grub2 to work after the
> upgrade, it should be done automagically via the postinst without any
> need for user intervention.

We have already a debconf prompt for this. But it seems that people
either don't see it or just don't care about it etc.

> Thanks a lot for you work and effort!

> On 11/28/2009 10:55 PM, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> > 24-1 was broken. 24-2 is actually the sid version before 24-1:
> 1115-1
> > 25-1 should work fine if you're /etc/grub.d/ files got correctly
> > updated.
> > Please check the generated grub.cfg and make sure grub-install gets
> run
> > in the postinst or do it yourself.
> > 

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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer