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

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 03:52:14PM -0500, Jeffrey G Thomas wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> In theory, I shouldn't need to make a habit of this :)
> 
> > 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
> 
> The downgrade downgraded both the grub-pc and grub-common packages so
> it should have worked, no?

Ideally, but evidently not.  Downgrades are sometimes a bit hairy,
particularly when files have moved around.  I suggest reinstalling
grub-common.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]