Bug#546008: grub-pc boot fails: "error: you need to load the kernel first"

[sean finney]

hi samson,

this is strange, i thought i had already followed up with this bug!

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 08:37:29AM -0400, Samson Yeung wrote:
> In the attached grub.cfg, there are duplicate entries for the numeric kernel.
> 
> They are not really duplicates because the file in /boot they refer to
> are not the same (vmlinuX vs vmlinuZ)

yes, the problem was with the vmlinux entry, which was left over from
some previous work i was doing with oprofile.  it wasn't supposed to be
there and the system booted fine off of the second entry (i've since
removed the vmlinux file and regenerated the file).

so i'd say this a non-issue, or perhaps at best a wishlist issue that
vmlinux files shouldn't be included in cases where they can't be
booted (i don't know if it's grub-pc missing the support, the platform,
or if it was just a corrupt vmlinux file in which case there's no fault
on the part of grub-pc).


	sean
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