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Package: grub
Version: 0.97-1ubuntu9
Severity: normal
(CC'ing Debian BTS, because I would have had the same problem with Sarge
instead of Dapper. Ubuntu's reportbug doesn't handle this very well...)
I have a system using dmraid and booting grub from the Windows boot loader.
Using savedefault prevents grub from booting Linux. Selecting the menu
entry for the Ubuntu kernel, the "kernel" and "initrd" lines show, but then
I see:
....
savedefault
Error 15: File not found
and I have to press return to go back to the main grub menu. If I hit 'e'
and take out the savedefault, it boots normally.
The menu.lst entry wass generated by update-grub:
title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-27-k7
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-27-k7 root=/dev/mapper/via_hibggiii7 ro
quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-27-k7
savedefault
boot
As I said, this machine doesn't boot grub the normal way. The machine is
an Athlon XP on an Asus A7V600, with 2 160GB SATA hard drives using
BIOS-driven RAID1. It runs win2k, but I left 5GB at the end of the drives
to play around with; hence Ubuntu. I installed mostly using
http://www.ubuntu-in.org/wiki/SATA_RAID_Howto. (which, incidentally, is a
real pain compared to setting up /target and using the normal ubiquity
installer...)
I put GRUB on the boot sector of my ext3 partition, not the MBR, using
grub
device (hd0) /dev/mapper/via_hibggiii
root (hd0,6)
setup (hd0,6)
And then, instead of somehow chainloading that partition, I did
dd if=/dev/mapper/via_hibggiii of=grub.img bs=512 count=1
and after booting into win2k I copied that file to c:\grub.img, and told the
windows bootloader about it with boot.ini:
....
c:\grub.img="GRUB"
So I don't know where grub could save defaults to, and I'm not shocked that
savedefault doesn't work. I've always been suspicious about by default
writing to the hard drive while booting, but this is the first time
savedefault has ever actually caused a problem. My opinion is that it's not
such a great default. The standard grub menu.lst doesn't use the saved
default anyway. I would suggest making savedefault another
automagic-comment configurable item, defaulting to off.
Thanks,
Peter Cordes
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers dapper-security
APT policy: (500, 'dapper-security'), (500, 'dapper')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-27-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-0ubuntu20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.5-1ubuntu3 Shared libraries for terminal hand
grub recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: grub
Source-Version: 0.97-31
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
grub, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
grub-disk_0.97-31_all.deb
to pool/main/g/grub/grub-disk_0.97-31_all.deb
grub-doc_0.97-31_all.deb
to pool/main/g/grub/grub-doc_0.97-31_all.deb
grub_0.97-31.diff.gz
to pool/main/g/grub/grub_0.97-31.diff.gz
grub_0.97-31.dsc
to pool/main/g/grub/grub_0.97-31.dsc
grub_0.97-31_amd64.deb
to pool/main/g/grub/grub_0.97-31_amd64.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated grub package)
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Hash: SHA1
Format: 1.7
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:32:57 +0100
Source: grub
Binary: grub grub-disk grub-doc
Architecture: source amd64 all
Version: 0.97-31
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Grub Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Changed-By: Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
grub - GRand Unified Bootloader
grub-disk - GRUB bootable disk image (dummy package)
grub-doc - Documentation for GRand Unified Bootloader
Closes: 393079 438177 462701 465235
Changes:
grub (0.97-31) unstable; urgency=low
.
* README.Debian, NEWS.Debian: Recommend that users invoke update-grub
directly without hardcoding its path. (Closes: #465235)
* savedefault command is now issued when enabled via menu.lst variable
of the same name, when user accepts the implications (note, that in
the default configuration it was already disabled).
(Closes: #393079, #462701)
* Restrict license in debian/copyright to GPLv2-only. (Closes: #438177)
Files:
638ad1bae51e2d3976c1b25e3eef3cdb 908 admin optional grub_0.97-31.dsc
8e8aa972f6b2a5d2702190563f011506 75168 admin optional grub_0.97-31.diff.gz
d3e216e4f08fd64e791b13ef720f7508 887210 admin optional grub_0.97-31_amd64.deb
120b76bc51c56786a5524beb0fbfe9f9 112732 admin optional
grub-disk_0.97-31_all.deb
4ff33f68ece83b3034ccee786b1565d7 273924 doc optional grub-doc_0.97-31_all.deb
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