Bug#586143: grub-pc 1.98+20100614-* not bootable

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 03:01:43PM -0500, Jeffrey G Thomas wrote:
> Downgrading to 1.98 (testing) and running:
> > grub-setup /dev/sda
> makes it all work.

grub-setup should not be run directly.  If you get into the habit of
doing this you should expect it to break at some point.

> Suggestions to run:
> > 'grub-install /dev/sda' 
> fails with:
> > '/usr/bin/grub-mkimage: Not found.'

... so you'll definitely have to fix that!  That's not good news and I
wouldn't recommend leaving your system that way.  I think the downgrade
has probably been botched somehow, since in 1.98-1 grub-mkimage lived in
the grub-pc package but in more recent versions it lives in grub-common.

Regards,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]