Bug#557992: grub-pc: Booting is completely broken

2009-11-29 Thread Paul Seelig
On 11/29/2009 09:10 PM, Felix Zielcke wrote: > But if you only have ASCII chars in the menu entry names then it > shouldn't at all make a difference. > Yes, the files are all ASCII only. > This shows if debconf thinks if you saw that prompt already or not > echo FGET grub-pc/install_devices see

Bug#557992: grub-pc: Booting is completely broken

2009-11-29 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Sonntag, den 29.11.2009, 20:49 +0100 schrieb Paul Seelig: > On 11/29/2009 09:08 AM, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > In the 24-1 one there was a syntax error in it which completely > broke > > our parser. But unfortunately nobody thought that the grub.cfg could > be > > just wrong and not the C code in

Bug#557992: grub-pc: Booting is completely broken

2009-11-29 Thread Paul Seelig
On 11/29/2009 09:08 AM, Felix Zielcke wrote: > In the 24-1 one there was a syntax error in it which completely broke > our parser. But unfortunately nobody thought that the grub.cfg could be > just wrong and not the C code in GRUB itself. > After having successfully rebooted today with 24-2, i too

Bug#557992: grub-pc: Booting is completely broken

2009-11-29 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Sonntag, den 29.11.2009, 00:22 +0100 schrieb Paul Seelig: > Well, if upgrading to 25-1 does not by itself result in a working boot > configuration, it defintely shouldn't be the user who should be held > responsible to make sure that it works. As an end user, i do expect > that the upgrade does

Bug#557992: grub-pc: Booting is completely broken

2009-11-28 Thread Paul Seelig
Well, if upgrading to 25-1 does not by itself result in a working boot configuration, it defintely shouldn't be the user who should be held responsible to make sure that it works. As an end user, i do expect that the upgrade does work without any further intervention. If 25-1 does not work althoug

Bug#557992: grub-pc: Booting is completely broken

2009-11-28 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Samstag, den 28.11.2009, 22:35 +0100 schrieb Paul Seelig: > Just for the record, my old ThinkPad T23 become unbootable with the > very > same symptons after upgrading it to this 1.97+20091125-1 version. > Luckily i still had 1.97+20091124-2 in the apt cache, and manually > downgrading to it "sol

Bug#557992: grub-pc: Booting is completely broken

2009-11-28 Thread Paul Seelig
Just for the record, my old ThinkPad T23 become unbootable with the very same symptons after upgrading it to this 1.97+20091125-1 version. Luckily i still had 1.97+20091124-2 in the apt cache, and manually downgrading to it "solved" the issue for the time being. To me it looks like something went

Bug#557992: grub-pc: Booting is completely broken

2009-11-27 Thread Edward J. Gower
I think version mentioned is incorrect. My problems started with this version: Package: grub-pc Priority: extra Section: admin Installed-Size: 1892 Maintainer: GRUB Maintainers Architecture: amd64 Source: grub2 Version: 1.97+20091125-1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lis

Bug#557992: grub-pc: Booting is completely broken

2009-11-26 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
I don't know how it happened, either, but this bug bit me, too. I upgraded my amd64 architecture laptop from ftp.us.debian.org around 7 AM CST (13:00 or so UTC) and was unable to come out of hibernation later. -- Jonathan Guthrie (jguth...@brokersys.com) Sto pro veritate http://www.brokersys.com/

Bug#557992: grub-pc: Booting is completely broken

2009-11-25 Thread Daniel Schepler
Package: grub-pc Version: 1.97+20091124-1 Severity: grave After updating to the latest version of grub-pc, I couldn't boot my system at all. It kept complaining that it didn't understand "if" or "fi" and never got to any sort of prompt. I had to use a rescue DVD and edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg t