Bug#540125: upgrade renders system unbootable

[Michal Suchanek]

2009/9/8 Felix Zielcke <fzielcke at z-51.de>:
> Am Dienstag, den 08.09.2009, 22:55 +0200 schrieb Michal Suchanek:
>> Package: grub-pc
>> Version: 1.96+20090808-1
>> Severity: normal
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>> I can boot with grub 1.97 beta and this fix to grub config
>> (replaces "set root=<device>" with "root <device>" in config)
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> Uhm you say 1.97beta but report the bug with the squeeze version?
> changing set root to just root doestn't make sense.
> The root command just sets the root variable and also prints the
> filesystem of it, nothing more.

Looking at the difference between 1.96 config and 1.97 config I would
suspect that the root command also automagically loads the fs modules
to find out which fs the root is to print that information but set
root does not which may cause the problems.

Thanks

Michal