Bug#567239: grub-pc 1.98~20100126-1 fails to boot.

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Freitag, den 29.01.2010, 12:03 +0800 schrieb Jos van Wolput:
> Robert Millan wrote:
> >
> > What happens if you use the legacy "linux16" loader?
> >
> >   
> >> This buggy version of grub-pc  shows  a  lot  more output  than  the   
> >> previous  one.
> >>     
> >
> > Which output?
> >   
> I don't know about 'the legacy "linux16" loader', can't find that 
> package and don't intend to try other bootloaders,
> I'm sorry, I really don't want more booting problems.

He meant using linux16 and initrd16 command instead of the usual linux
and initrd ones in your menuentry in GRUB.

> 'Which output?' I mean the output you always see on the screen when booting. It is much more than usual.

Maybe the quiet Linux kernel option somehow got lost. Then you get much
more output from it during boot.

> For your information I mention I am using runit, sysvinit and file-rc (the Sid versions) for booting.
> 
> To avoid booting failures I would suggest you put buggy versions of grub-pc in the experimental distribution 
> before putting them in Sid!

We use experimental but unfortunately bugs slip through because they
don't get much testing.
We test of course ourself the uploads if they work for us. But as you
see we aren't able to test every bug which could stop booting.
-- 
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer