Package: grub-pc Version: 1.98~20100115-1 Severity: wishlist I recently got bit by the symptoms listed in #564093. Luckily I was able to fix it by copying the vmlinuz and initrd.img over to a Windows partition and use win32-loader to boot normally then run dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc to fix the issue. This Debian system is often booted over USB from various systems and sometimes from the internal SATA slot on my laptop. I chose /dev/sdb as the install device because the Debian hard drive is more often than not booting over USB. Unfortunately I was not booting over USB when I upgraded grub-pc, which caused the issue listed in #564093. It would be nice if I could specify a label or UUID of the /boot partition as the install device and grub would resolve that to the right device to install grub onto. This would make grub / Debian more useful for roaming USB stick situations.
-- Package-specific info:
debconf-settings for grub2 are:
grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline:
grub-pc/linux_cmdline: fillme
* grub2/linux_cmdline: quiet loglevel=0
grub-pc/chainload_from_menu.lst: true
grub-pc/kopt_extracted: false
* grub-pc/install_devices: /dev/sdb
grub-pc/postrm_purge_boot_grub: false
grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline_default: quiet
* grub2/linux_cmdline_default:
*********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts
/dev/mapper/chianamo-root / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,acl,data=ordered
0 0
/dev/sdb1 /boot ext2 rw,relatime,errors=continue 0 0
*********************** END /proc/mounts
*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0) /dev/sda
(hd1) /dev/sdb
*********************** END /boot/grub/device.map
*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/grub.cfg
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
load_env
fi
set default="0"
if [ ${prev_saved_entry} ]; then
set saved_entry=${prev_saved_entry}
save_env saved_entry
set prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
set boot_once=true
fi
function savedefault {
if [ -z ${boot_once} ]; then
saved_entry=${chosen}
save_env saved_entry
fi
}
insmod ext2
set root=(hd1,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c85c6a91-3d55-4775-879b-eb3f8cdfd925
if loadfont /grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
set gfxmode=800x600
insmod gfxterm
insmod vbe
if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else
# For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't
# understand terminal_output
terminal gfxterm
fi
fi
set locale_dir=/boot/grub/locale
set lang=en
insmod gettext
set timeout=5
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
insmod ext2
set root=(hd1,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c85c6a91-3d55-4775-879b-eb3f8cdfd925
insmod png
if background_image /grub/moreblue-orbit-grub.png ; then
set color_normal=black/black
set color_highlight=magenta/black
else
set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64" {
insmod ext2
set root=(hd1,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c85c6a91-3d55-4775-879b-eb3f8cdfd925
echo Loading Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 ...
linux //vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/chianamo-root ro
quiet loglevel=0
echo Loading initial ramdisk ...
initrd //initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-amd64
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (recovery mode)" {
insmod ext2
set root=(hd1,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c85c6a91-3d55-4775-879b-eb3f8cdfd925
echo Loading Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 ...
linux //vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/chianamo-root ro
single quiet loglevel=0
echo Loading initial ramdisk ...
initrd //initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-amd64
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86 ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86)" {
linux16 /memtest86.bin
}
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86 ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
insmod ext2
set root=(hd1,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c85c6a91-3d55-4775-879b-eb3f8cdfd925
linux16 /memtest86+.bin
}
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" {
insmod ext2
set root=(hd1,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c85c6a91-3d55-4775-879b-eb3f8cdfd925
linux16 /memtest86+.bin console=ttyS0,115200n8
}
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
*********************** END /boot/grub/grub.cfg
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.28 Debian configuration management sy
ii grub-common 1.98~20100115-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version
ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii ucf 3.0025 Update Configuration File: preserv
Versions of packages grub-pc suggests:
ii desktop-base 5.0.5 common files for the Debian Deskto
--
bye,
pabs
http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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