Bug#586143: Same problem

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 01:59:15PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> I'm not the original reporter but experience the similar problem,
> getting 'unaligned pointer 0x4c1b0297'. I tried to collect the
> information you requested for that:

Thanks.  This is the most interesting part:

> Generating core.img
> Saving menu.lst backup in /boot/grub/menu.lst_backup_by_grub2_postinst
> Running update-grub Legacy to hook our core.img in it
[...]

I've just gone through an extensive debugging session with an affected
user on IRC who had the same symptom (thanks, dileX), and I believe I
understand the problem now.  I would like to confirm one fact with the
people who have contributed to this bug report so far, namely:

Does the file /boot/grub/stage2 exist on your system?

I strongly suspect at this point that that will be the case for all of
you, and if that's the case then I know what to do.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]