Package: grub-common
Version: 1.98+20100804-6
Severity: important
Severity justification: Fails to boot the linux kernel.
/boot is an ext3 filesystem on /dev/sda1
/ is an ext3 filesystem on an LVM logical volume (/dev/mapper/vg-root)
When update-grub creates /boot/grub/grub.cfg, it writes the following
section for the linux kernel:
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64' --class debian --class
gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 9d53cdf2-13b4-4bc5-beb2-c0e681f1af13
echo 'Loading Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/vg-root ro
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
Instead of /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64, the pathname
/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 should be used; likewise for the initrd image.
It seems the issue lies either in how the grub-mkrelpath program
behaves or how it is invoked in /etc/grub.d/10_linux. 10_linux calls
'grub-mkrelpath /boot', which outputs '/boot'. I would have expected
an empty string.
The commands
grub-mkrelpath /boot
grub-mkrelpath /boot/
grub-mkrelpath /boot/.
all output '/boot' while e.g.
grub-mkrelpath /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64
outputs '/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64'.
Thanks,
Martin
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages grub-common depends on:
ii base-files 5.9 Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii dpkg 1.15.8.5 Debian package management system
ii gettext-base 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in
ii libc6 2.11.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.48-3 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages grub-common recommends:
pn os-prober <none> (no description available)
Versions of packages grub-common suggests:
pn grub-emu <none> (no description available)
pn multiboot-doc <none> (no description available)
pn xorriso <none> (no description available)
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