Bug#567835: grub-pc: fails to boot with Linux kernels since 1.98~20100126-1

[Miguel Landaeta]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.98~20100126-1
Severity: important

With grub-pc 1.98~20100126-1 and 1.98~20100128-1 I can't
boot the Linux kernels installed on my machine, when I
select one of them or just let boot the default one, my
machine just freezes and the following message is showed on
screen:

Loading Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 ...
Loading initial ramdisk ...

Since the machine no longer boots, the only way of fixing
this is rebooting and using a rescue cd to downgrade grub-pc
to 1.98~20100115-1.

I'm using the default configuration of grub-pc provided by
Debian. The /boot partition is the first one on my disk and
the root filesystem is on LVM. This normal setup worked
until 1.98~20100115-1. BTW, this bug is not affecting the
booting of a partition with Windows XP in this machine.

-- Package-specific info:

*********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts
/dev/mapper/fiona-root / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 rw,relatime,errors=continue,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/mapper/fiona-tmp /tmp ext3 rw,relatime,errors=continue,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/mapper/fiona-usr /usr ext3 rw,relatime,errors=continue,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/mapper/fiona-var /var ext3 rw,relatime,errors=continue,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/mapper/miguel-home /home ext3 rw,relatime,errors=continue,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/mapper/scratch-tmp /home/miguel/tmp ext3 rw,relatime,errors=continue,data=ordered 0 0
*********************** END /proc/mounts

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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                    2.10.2-5        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  ucf                      3.0025          Update Configuration File: preserv

grub-pc recommends no packages.

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

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