severity 548320 important thanks Am Freitag, den 25.09.2009, 15:01 +0100 schrieb ael: > 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.
That's the problem with 1000 or 1024 as unit for mega/kilo etc. $ ls -l grub-rescue-floppy.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1473256 12. Sep 15:46 grub-rescue-floppy.img and that is (rounded) 1438,73 KiB (not KB) See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk A usual floppy disk has 1440 KiB > 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 The image works fine in qemu I think dd would even complain if the image size would be bigger then your floppy. Maybe your floppy is broken. Compare `md5sum /dev/fd0' with `md5sum /usr/lib/grub-rescue/grub-rescue-floppy.img' You could try to create your own image with grub-mkrescue It could be that your BIOS is just broken. Try to update it. And you could to try out if a GRUB Legacy boot disk works. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
