Bug#590554: "/boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly" for grub-common

[Steven Shiau]

Package: grub-common
Version: 1.98+20100722-1
Severity: important

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I created a Debian Sid live CD with Debian live as a rescue system.
When I booted the rescue system, and used the grub-legacy program to 
reinstall grub for Debian Lenny system (installed in /dev/sda1) by:
root at debian:~# grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda
I got the error:
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The file /mnt/boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly.
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I downloaded the grub-common 1.98-1 from:
http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20100409T161321Z/pool/main/g/grub2/grub-common_1.98-1_i386.deb
Installed it on the Debian Sid environment, without rebooting, I ran the 
same command again:
root at debian:~# grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda
The command ran smoothly:
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Installation finished. No error reported.
This is the contents of the device map /mnt/boot/grub/device.map.
Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.

(fd0)   /dev/fd0
(hd0) 
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-VMware_Virtual_IDE_Hard_Drive_00000000000000000001
(hd1) 
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-VMware_Virtual_IDE_Hard_Drive_01000000000000000001
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Apparently there is something changed in grub-common 1.98+20100722-1 
that breaks the grub 1 support.
If you need more info, please let me know.

Steven.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
   APT prefers unstable
   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 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-common depends on:
ii  base-files              5.8              Debian base system 
miscellaneous f
ii  dpkg                    1.15.7.2         Debian package management 
system
ii  gettext-base            0.18.1.1-1       GNU Internationalization 
utilities
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-2         Embedded GNU C Library: 
Shared lib
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1      2:1.02.48-2      The Linux Kernel Device 
Mapper use
ii  libfreetype6            2.4.0-2          FreeType 2 font engine, 
shared lib
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages grub-common recommends:
pn  os-prober                     <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages grub-common suggests:
pn  grub-emu                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  multiboot-doc                 <none>     (no description available)
pn  xorriso                       <none>     (no description available)

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