Bug#650435: grub-pc: recsue mode doesn't rescue: error: incompatible license

[Brian Potkin]

On Tue 29 Nov 2011 at 20:35:37 +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:

> On 29.11.2011 20:14, Brian Potkin wrote:
>>
>> This isn't a d-i bug, or even a Debian bug for that matter, so please
>> let me know if you wish me to pursue it upstream rather than here.
>>
> GRUB doesn't have a stable binary ABI. So modules from one version can't  
> be used with another one and not having consistent setup is a bug  
> (usually wrong grub-install invocation) or user misintervention. If it  
> wasn't for this message the loading would have failed for another reason  
> (probably symbol problem). You need to use consistent setup. You can't  
> take a new head and put it on old body, they are not compatible.

Thank you for the response. I had rather thought the mismatch between
GRUB and module version was a possible cause but forgot to make it an
explicit query in my mail. Your final two sentences make the situation
clear.