Hi,
today I cam across that error after a fresh squeeze net installation
(installed with grub-legacy). After install system was bootable, I then
installed grub-pc 1.98+20100804-6 which wrote a new grub.cfg.
The system use /dev/sda1 exclusive for /boot (ext2)
and /dev/mapper/LVM-root for / (ext4).
Excerpt from /boot/grub/grub.cfg (written by hand on different system):
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menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with ...' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class
gnu --class os {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos1)'
search --no-floppy ...
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 root=...
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64
}
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Booting with that entry gives "error: you need to load the kernel
first".
Since /boot is on a seperate partition the load lines should read
linux /vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 root=...
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64
and when just editing them to that the system boots fine. It seems that
${GRUB_DEVICE} is set wrong.
Some tests:
# grub-probe --target=device /boot
/dev/sda1
# grub-probe --target=fs /boot
ext2
# grub-probe --target=drive /boot
(hd0,msdos1)
# grub-probe --target=partmap /boot
msdos
Hope this helps a bit.
Kind regards
--hgb
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