* dann frazier <da...@debian.org> [2009-01-28 12:49]: > Package: grub-pc > Version: 1.96+20080724-14 > Severity: grave > > hey, > After a recent upgrade, my laptop became unbootable. I don't have > local access to the machine rigth now, so unfortunately the preboot > information will have to come from memory. > > According to dpkg.log, the upgrade was this one: > 2009-01-20 22:37:55 upgrade grub-pc 1.96+20080724-12 1.96+20080724-14 > > At boot time, grub complains that 'initrd' is an invalid option and > refuses to boot. > > My boot entry looks like this: > set root=(hd0,1) > search --fs-uuid --set e7bf09bb-8d63-4bbb-84d8-4ada743f643f > linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 > root=UUID=e7bf09bb-8d63-4bbb-84d8-4ada743f643f ro > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686 > > I found through experimentation that deleting the first two lines > allows my system to boot again.
Just FYI, I got the exact same problem. Well, except that I got local access sto the machine. But the error message is the same, and removing the se3arch line makes it work again. However, running, grub-install and update-grub made things work again. Regards, David -- David Riebenbauer Jabber: davr...@jabber.ccc.de - ICQ: 322056002 http://liegesta.at -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
