Package: grub-rescue-pc Version: 1.97~beta3-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system
$ ls -lh /usr/lib/grub-rescue/grub-rescue-floppy.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.5M 2009-09-12 17:07 /usr/lib/grub-rescue/grub-rescue-floppy.img A standard floppy is 1.44M, so grub-rescue-floppy.img is too large to fit. If one nevertheless follows README.Debian and uses dd if=/usr/lib/grub-rescue/grub-rescue-floppy.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=32k the resulting floppy fails to boot with the message: GRUB loadingRead Error ------------------------------------------------------------- -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31 (PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages grub-rescue-pc depends on: ii base-files 5.0.0 Debian base system miscellaneous f grub-rescue-pc recommends no packages. grub-rescue-pc suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
