Bug#548320: grub-rescue-pc: grub-rescue-floppy.img is too large for a standard floppy!

[ael]

Package: grub-rescue-pc
Version: 1.97~beta3-1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system


$ ls -lh /usr/lib/grub-rescue/grub-rescue-floppy.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.5M 2009-09-12 17:07 /usr/lib/grub-rescue/grub-rescue-floppy.img

A standard floppy is 1.44M, so grub-rescue-floppy.img is too large to fit.

If one nevertheless follows README.Debian and uses
dd if=/usr/lib/grub-rescue/grub-rescue-floppy.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=32k

the resulting floppy fails to boot with the message:
GRUB loadingRead Error

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub-rescue-pc depends on:
ii  base-files                    5.0.0      Debian base system miscellaneous f

grub-rescue-pc recommends no packages.

grub-rescue-pc suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information