Bug#748793: grub-legacy: Updateing lilo to grub fails

[Nigel Horne]

Package: grub-legacy
Version: Cryptic message installing grub
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I'm following your instructions at https://wiki.debian.org/FromLiloToGrub.

The line 'grub-install /dev/sda' fails with this message:

The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly.

I have no idea what that means, there is no indication what I did wrongly
or what I have to do to fix the problem.  Please advise.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash