Bug#586608: grub-pc: the dreaded unaligned pointer problem

[Rogério Brito]

Hi, Colin.

On Jun 21 2010, Colin Watson wrote:
> tags 586608 - upstream
> thanks

Right. It is indeed not an upstream problem, after all.

> On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 09:23:36PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> > Here is the requested output of the command, with a rescue CD (with
> > all the proper filesystems mounted):
> 
> Please give me a bit of background.  How are your disks laid out?  Does
> your system boot after you ran 'grub-install /dev/sda'?

Here is some basic information:

* /dev/sda is the whole device
* /dev/sda1 is a windows partition that I want to get rid of once Linux
  works for me: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11717
* /dev/sda2 is an extended partition
* /dev/sda5 is an ext4 filesystem with Linux
* /dev/sda6 is the swap partition

(This is from my memory, as I am not using that notebook right now).

> Well, this is all clearly succeeding.  My guess is that you aren't
> actually booting from /dev/sda

I was booting from /dev/sda, but...

> and that there's some other core image lying around somewhere which is
> out of date, but it's hard to guess at more detail than that given the
> information available so far.

... issuing a upgrade-from-grub-legacy fixed the problem for me.  So, if
you want, just feel free to close this bug.


Thanks,

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