Your message dated Thu, 27 May 2010 13:23:13 +0100
with message-id <20100527122313.ga1...@riva.ucam.org>
and subject line Re: Bug#567049: make_system_path_relative_to_its_root works
for me...
has caused the Debian Bug report #567049,
regarding grub-common: make_system_path_relative_to_its_root behaviour changed
and broke boot image path generation.
to be marked as done.
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Package: grub-common
Version: 1.98~20100115-1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.1 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages grub-common depends on:
ii base-files 5.0.0 Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii dpkg 1.15.5.6 Debian package management system
ii gettext-base 0.17-8 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in
ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfreetype6 2.3.11-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages grub-common recommends:
pn os-prober <none> (no description available)
Versions of packages grub-common suggests:
pn grub-emu <none> (no description available)
ii multiboot-doc 0.97-59 The Multiboot specification
-- no debconf information
My system has /boot as seperate partition with boot images in /boot/<image> and
grub in /boot/grub.
This was working normally until a recent update where the function
make_system_path_relative_to_its_root in /usr/lib/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib turns
/boot to / resulting in a boot image path like: linux //vmlinux-previous
root=/dev/md2 ro video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap,1280x1024...@60 vga=0x318. (Note the
//).
To ensure my system boot correctly I have to manually update the
/boot/grub/grug.cfg file to have paths like linux /boot/vmlinux-previous
root=/dev/md2 ro video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap,1280x1024...@60 vga=0x318
Thanks
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On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 08:07:39AM -0700, Anthony Mutiso wrote:
> Yes, I am quite sure that /boot is a separate partition as I build all
> my systems this way.
>
> And to be clear, prior to grub2 I had to manage the grub.conf manually,
> which was fine, but then along came grub2 and and I had to make some
> adjustments to work with the new grub.cfg file. This was working fine
> until the most recent update where /boot is now being stripped to just /
> creating the // issue. I do have /boot as sym-link to . so linux
> //vmlinux-2.6.32.4 should work.
I agree with Anthony DeRobertis that there should be no need to prefix
/boot; it seems that the double slash may have been the problem here.
This should have been fixed upstream a while back:
2010-01-20 Robert Millan <rmh.g...@aybabtu.com>
* util/misc.c (make_system_path_relative_to_its_root): Work around
special-casing of "/", as previous incarnation of this routine did.
(and some subsequent changes on top of that)
Could you please try the current version in testing, namely version
1.98-1? I believe it should fix your problem. If not, please reopen
this bug and attach your /boot/grub/grub.cfg for investigation.
Thanks,
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Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
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