Bug#570960: grub-pc: grub2 not working on lenny and squeeze after fresh install

[Alexander Joelly]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.98~20100115-1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system


after installing lenny or squeeze machines cannot boot, grub2 stops at "Welcome to GRUB2!" message, do a permanent reboot loop or hang when showing the boot menu;
booting from the netinst into rescue mode and tried something but nothing other then deinstalling grub2 and installing grub-legacy helps;
with grub-legacy all machines boot is fine, our systems are inteservers with sh3210-series mainboards and areca or 3ware hardware raid-controllers;
since the option to install grub-legacy on debian lenny is no longer availiable, installing debian 'stable' is no longer possible;
i recommend to bring back the option into the debian-installer that grub-legacy can be installed instead grub2 or completely remove grub2 from lenny because it seems not to be 'stable';



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.28          Debian configuration management sy
ii  grub-common              1.98~20100115-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 
ii  libc6                    2.10.2-2        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
pn  ucf                      <none>          (no description available)

grub-pc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages grub-pc suggests:
pn  desktop-base                  <none>     (no description available)