Bug#565953: grub-pc: update-grub2 generates invalid entries

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Mittwoch, den 20.01.2010, 00:55 +0100 schrieb Julien Bellion:
> Package: grub-pc
> Version: 1.98~20100101-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Hello,
> 
> My system have several partitions :
> 
> /dev/sda1 : root partition for a Debian testing 64 bits
> /dev/sda2 : /boot partition
> /dev/sda3 : root partition for a Debian testing 32 bits
> /dev/sda6 : home partition
> /dev/sda7 : opt partition
> 
> When I run update-grub2 from the 64 bits version, the 32 bits version entries are not bootable.
> They all point to /dev/sda1 partition, while 32 bits root is sda3.
> The problem is the same, but inversed, if I run update-grub2 from the 32 bits version.
> 

Does `sudo linux-boot-prober /dev/sda3' on the 64bit one or `sudo
linux-boot-prober /dev/sda1' on the other one get it right?
It should read the correct value for root= parameter from the grub.cfg
on the device you give it.

-- 
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer