error: You need to load the kernel first

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Sonntag, den 29.11.2009, 10:48 +0100 schrieb BU66ER BAD6ER:
> Hi,
> 
> Since an upgrade of my Debian Sid a few days ago, my grub2 behaves
> badly and I get the following grub boot message "error: You need to
> load the kernel first".
> 
> The culprit is that grub2 insists on putting a /boot in the paths in
> the grub.cfg file. I don't have more than OS and my /boot directory is
> also the 1st separate partition on the 1st physical harddisk. I had
> not changed any hardware or any other configuration when this
> happened, except the aptitude full-upgrade. It was not an upgrade from
> grub to grub2, as I have used grub2 since more than half a year.
> 
> This is serious, as the kernel is not started and I cannot edit any
> files per se.
> 
> However, I can work around this temporarily by editing and
> removing /boot from the kernel paths, using 'e' in grubeditor, and
> Ctrl-X for booting. But, that doesn't survive reboot and I need to
> redo it at every start-up.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any advice!
> 

Please see the first listed bug in the grub2 bug list:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=558042



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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer