Package: grub-common
Version: 1.99-14
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
Dear Maintainer,
I have the following setup.
* What led up to the situation?
A machine with old bios but with a new large and non supported by the bios
disk. As a consequence I created a different /boot partition at the start
of the disk hoping that the kernel and /boot/grub will be addressable by
the bios during boot.
Furthermore I wanted to enable enable graphics mode and pass it to the linux
kernel later on with the GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep option.
grub fails to enter the graphics mode because of loadfont failure.
More specifically,
in /etc/grub.d/00_header one can find:
if loadfont `make_system_path_relative_to_its_root "${GRUB_FONT_PATH}"` ;
then
set gfxmode=${GRUB_GFXMODE}
load_video
insmod gfxterm
in /boot/grub/grub.cfg the above fragment becomes:
if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
set gfxmode=1280x1024
load_video
insmod gfxterm
However /usr/share/grub resides on the / partition and it is inacessible
by the BIOS.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
I changed by hand /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 to /boot/grug/unicode.pf2 in
/boot/grub/grub.cfg and I copied the file there.
* What was the outcome of this action?
It boots fine now and it enters graphics mode - but I have to do that
manually every time I upgrade grub-common
* What outcome did you expect instead?
I would prefer the contents of /usr/share/grub/ to be placed in /boot/grub.
The disk space required is about 12MB.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=el_GR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=el_GR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages grub-common depends on:
ii gettext-base 0.18.1.1-5
ii libc6 2.13-24
ii libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.67-2
ii libfreetype6 2.4.8-1
ii libfuse2 2.8.6-4
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3
Versions of packages grub-common recommends:
ii os-prober 1.49
Versions of packages grub-common suggests:
pn desktop-base 6.0.7
pn grub-emu <none>
pn multiboot-doc <none>
pn xorriso <none>
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