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

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:03:47PM +0800, Jos van Wolput wrote:
>>   
> I don't know about 'the legacy "linux16" loader', can't find that  
> package and don't intend to try other bootloaders,

It's a GRUB command.  Already included in GRUB.  Just type "help linux16".

> To avoid booting failures I would suggest you put buggy versions of 
> grub-pc in the experimental distribution before putting them in Sid!

We test each and every build before uploading.  Unfortunately we have no way
to know in advance if bugs specific to your setup are present.  But we use
experimental for much of the new code already.

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Robert Millan

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