Bug#611537: Bug#643507: not really solved

[Diego Guella]

From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder at gmail.com>
> On 03.02.2012 13:04, Diego Guella wrote:
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>> From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder at gmail.com>
>>> Both Colin Watson and I tried to reproduce it or similar problems but 
>>> couldn't other than on heavily desynced and corrupted disk. If you can 
>>> supply the test images (just GRUB+kernel) using latest bzr upstream I'd 
>>> happily fix it, otherwise I don't see what I can do.
>>
>> I need to understand better what you need.
>> Do you need the dd images of all the disks?
> I think I nailed this bug when doing something completely unrelated.
> Does commeinting out all insmod gettext workarounds the problem?

Yes! I commented 2 lines in /boot/grub/grub.cfg :
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set locale_dir=($root)/boot/grub/locale
#set lang=it
#insmod gettext
set timeout=5
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
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and I reached the GRUB menu for the first time, booting from the 3rd disk
(one of the disks not used during Debian installation!)

I confirm that this workaround solves the issue.