Bug#546021: More information

[Ron Murray]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.97~beta3-1
Severity: normal

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It seems that, on my system at least (don't know about the original
submitter), grub is going directly into rescue mode. I do not know why
it should do such a thing, although one possibility is that it can't
find anything suitable on the avowed root drive (according to
grub.cfg on my system, the root device is the LVM /usr partition), so
perhaps it goes into rescue mode in sheer disgust. The ensuing delay
on my systems seem to be due to it looking for a floppy disk (which
explains the "no such disk" error, because I never have one in the
drive). 

I followed the logic in the /etc/grub.d/00_header script as best I
could, and it looked like it chose the LVM /usr partition as the root
device because that's where the pixmaps for the splash screen
are. This seems bogus, and I gave up at that point. Perhaps somebody
with more experience in the internal working of grub could explain why
it does that.


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.1-khufu-0 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.27       Debian configuration management sy
ii  grub-common                 1.97~beta3-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 
ii  libc6                       2.9-25       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  ucf                         3.0022       Update Configuration File: preserv

grub-pc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages grub-pc suggests:
ii  desktop-base                  5.0.5      common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  genisoimage                   9:1.1.9-1  Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem

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