Bug#545094: upgrade to grub2 failed, PC doesn't boot anymore, sniff

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Freitag, den 04.09.2009, 23:24 +0200 schrieb Harald Dunkel:
> Package: grub2
> Version: 1.97~beta2-1
> Severity: grave
> 
> After the enforced upgrade to grub2 my PC does not boot anymore.
> I see the blue grub menu, but when I hit [return] I get an error
> message about a file not found. Unfortunately it does not say
> which file is missing.
> 
> Attached you can find my old menu.lst file. Kernel and initrd are
> on a small /boot partition (/dev/sda1, reiserfs). The initrd
> activates a software RAID0 using mdadm and mounts /dev/md0p1 as /.
> 
> 
> I wonder how many systems you broke with the enforced upgrade to
> grub2. Don't you think it would have been more wise to replace the
> old grub in d-i, but to not touch existing grub installations?

It's not an enforced upgrade.
We warned through a debconf prompt in grub before with priority high,
not hidden somewhere in NEWS.Debian or so.

> 
> Please mail if I can help to track this down.


GRUB 2 uses grub.cfg now not menu.lst
If you'd reported a bug against the correct grub-pc reportbug would have
included it for you.
Better run `/usr/share/bug/grub-pc/script 3>&1' and post the output of
it.


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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer