Your message dated Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:02:18 +0000
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and subject line Bug#451701: fixed in grub 0.97-44
has caused the Debian Bug report #451701,
regarding grub: boot sector code is not automatically updated, resulting in
boot trouble with 2.6.23
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451701: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=451701
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Package: grub
Version: 0.97-29
Severity: normal
Hi,
this bug is mostly meant as reference for other people who fall into
this pit, please do not close even if you do not intend to fix it.
Recently, with 2.6.23.something, the Linux kernel binary format has
been changed in a way that older (I am not sure whether sarge's grub
is affected) grub code cannot boot it: Boot terminates with "No setup
signature found" or "Setup signature not found".
Since the grub package does not have maintainer scripts that update
the boot sector automatically, and no documentation suggests running
grub-install after updating the package, this will kill reboot of all
systems that were installed long ago (I suspect pre-sarge), and will
now be updated to 2.6.23.something (verified with .8).
While the fix, a new grub-install, is trivial, people need to be aware
of this issue.
On the technical side, I'd like to suggest that the grub package
verifies on postinst that the boot sector holds _current_ grub code
and displays a big fat warning, reminding the user to execute
grub-install manually, or offering to do this for the user during
postinst automatically, to avoid incompatibilities like this in the
future.
At least, this needs to be prominently documented in NEWS.Debian or
README.Debian. This issue has caused me a nightmare service window
today since all my test systems were young enough to have 2.6.23.x
compatible grub boot sector code. The first two productive systems
were older than that.
Greetings
Marc
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.1-scyw00225 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii libc6 2.6.1-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.6+20071013-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
grub recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: grub
Source-Version: 0.97-44
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_0.97-44_all.deb
to pool/main/g/grub/grub-disk_0.97-44_all.deb
grub-doc_0.97-44_all.deb
to pool/main/g/grub/grub-doc_0.97-44_all.deb
grub-legacy-doc_0.97-44_all.deb
to pool/main/g/grub/grub-legacy-doc_0.97-44_all.deb
grub_0.97-44.diff.gz
to pool/main/g/grub/grub_0.97-44.diff.gz
grub_0.97-44.dsc
to pool/main/g/grub/grub_0.97-44.dsc
grub_0.97-44_amd64.deb
to pool/main/g/grub/grub_0.97-44_amd64.deb
multiboot-doc_0.97-44_all.deb
to pool/main/g/grub/multiboot-doc_0.97-44_all.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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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:00:09 +0200
Source: grub
Binary: grub grub-disk grub-doc grub-legacy-doc multiboot-doc
Architecture: source amd64 all
Version: 0.97-44
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Grub Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Changed-By: Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
grub - GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy version)
grub-disk - GRUB bootable disk image (dummy package)
grub-doc - Documentation for GRand Unified Bootloader (dummy package)
grub-legacy-doc - Documentation for GRUB Legacy
multiboot-doc - The Multiboot specification
Closes: 451701 492213
Changes:
grub (0.97-44) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Ignore -y option. When menu.lst doesn't exist, it's always generated.
(Closes: #492213)
* NEWS: Add note recommending that users update their GRUB installs.
(Closes: #451701)
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