Bug#558683: closed by Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian.org> (Re: grub-common: grub-mkrelpath fails on root of a partition)

[brian m. carlson]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:45:09PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 08:05:24PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> > I ran /etc/grub.d/10_linux under sh -x and determined that
> > "grub-mkrelpath /boot" responds with "/boot" instead of "/".
> 
> I believe this to be fixed in 1.98-1, by this and related commits:
> 
> 2010-01-20  Robert Millan  <rmh.grub at aybabtu.com>
> 
>         * util/misc.c (make_system_path_relative_to_its_root): Work around
>         special-casing of "/", as previous incarnation of this routine did.
> 
> Could you please retest and confirm?

The system has booted correctly for some time, so it appears to be
functioning fine.

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