Bug#707653: grub2-common: After Grub 2.00-14 upgrade, system failed to boot (rescue, old grub 1.99 still in mbr)

Colin Watson cjwatson at debian.org
Fri May 10 07:06:40 UTC 2013


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 08:44:57AM +0200, Michael Musenbrock wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:46:19AM +0200, Michael Musenbrock wrote:
> > > It seems to me, that the grub-install, or whatever mechanism is used
> > > internally to write the new grub, was not run on upgrade.
> > 
> > Hmm, it looks like I haven't set up reportbug quite right so I didn't
> > get much in the way of useful information automatically with your bug.
> 
> So, should grub reports better filed to the grub-[pc,efi,...] packages?

No, I should fix the packaging :-)

> > Could you please run:
> > 
> > /usr/share/reportbug/handle_bugscript /usr/share/bug/grub-pc-bin/script grub.out
> > 
> > ... and attach the grub.out file created by that command, as well as the
> > output of 'sudo debconf-show grub-pc'?
> 
> I've attached those files.

Please answer "n" to the LVM question - answering "y" and then failing
to provide correct su authentication means that it gives me incomplete
output.  (The script is a bit flaky now that I look at it.)

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]



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