Bug#545910: updating to grub-pc fails to boot memtest+

[Felix Zielcke]

reassign 545910 memtest86+
forcemerge 545910 539907
thanks

Am Mittwoch, den 09.09.2009, 17:58 -0400 schrieb Chris Knadle:
> Package: grub-pc
> Version: 1.97~beta2-2
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> 
> Updating to grub-pc from grub-legacy creates a script in
> /etc/grub.d/20-memtest+ but unfortunately the entry fails to
> boot memtest+ after the upgrade.  Specifically, this won't work:
> 
>      menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
>              linux $MEMTESTPATH
>      }
> 
> But this does:
> 
>      menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
>              linux16 $MEMTESTPATH
>      }
> 
> I was finally able to find the answer here (thank you Felix):
>    http://osdir.com/ml/grub-devel-gnu/2009-08/msg00101.html

/etc/grub.d/memtest86+ belongs to the memtest86+ package.
This has been already reported a month ago.
I don't know why it's maintainer doestn't fix this.
Maybe this will push it.

> Also note that other recommendations, such as the one listed
> here, did NOT work (using 'netbsd' in place of 'linux16'):
>    http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2#Booting_Memtest86.2B

netbsd? Wow that's ehm interesting.
I wonder how the person who wrote this got the idea and if he actually
tried it out.

> It would also really be helpful if the documentation for grub-pc
> contained a working example for memtest+ in examples/grub.cfg as it
> would at least give a hint as to how to go about modifying the
> /etc/grub.d/20-memtest+ script by hand after the upgrade; because
> without doing that /boot/grub/grub.cfg is overwritten when
> update-grub or update-grub2 are run.

I add this now upstream, so it'll be included in next beta release.

> Similarly the Grub2 wiki at http://grub.enbug.org/ doesn't list
> anything about booting memtest+ either.  :-/

Feel free to create an account and add it there.


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