Bug#585068: grub-pc: fails to boot kfreebsd with "no such partition" after upgrade from 1.98-1

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Colin,

Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 10:10:42PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > grub rescue> set prefix=(hd0,msdos1,bsd1)/boot/grub
> 
> What is prefix set to before you do this?  (Type 'set' without
> arguments.)

The box is now in my backpack on the way to the Debian Booth at
LinuxTag in Berlin. (Noticed it during my normal check before events,
if the box still works fine after a reboot.) ñCan't promise that I'll
manage to hack on it during the event, but will have a look
after LinuxTag. (OTOH there's a KSP at LinuxTag and this is an RC
level bug... ;-)

> Is there some way that I could reproduce this, e.g. by installing
> from some CD image and upgrading?

No idea if just installing kFreeBSD with defaults will result in this
although I'd expect chances to be not bad.

My box is a grown installation (maybe 1.5 or 2 years old) which didn't
use D-I as kFreeBSD does now.

> I'm happy to spend some time on this inside kvm or whatever, but
> will need a bit of guidance as I've never used kFreeBSD.

I posted the problem also to #debian-kbsd. Maybe I get some feedback
there, too.

		Regards, Axel
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