New grub version needs testing

handaxe dlist at ubuntuforums.org
Sun Aug 21 18:46:31 CDT 2005


This one did me in too.  As I do not have an old Hoary partition at
hand, how do I re-enable GRUB or does GRUB require an update first? If
the 2nd, how to do.

Thanks

Pete Shinners Wrote: 
> Matthew Garrett <mjg59 <at> srcf.ucam.org> writes:
> > grub_0.95+cvs20040624-17ubuntu5 has just been uploaded and should hit
> 
> > the archive soon. It contains a change to the stage 1 bootloader code
> 
> > that will result in grub attempting to recover from situations where
> the 
> > BIOS doesn't provide a boot device. This code /should/ only ever
> trigger 
> > when boot would otherwise have failed anyway, but if people could try
> 
> > reinstalling grub (you need to do grub-install /dev/hda or whatever)
> and 
> > ensuring that their system still boots, that would be great. Don't
> worry 
> > about letting us know that it works, but if it doesn't please file a 
> > bug.
> 
> My encounter with the new grub was disastrous. I've filed a bug with
> more of the
> details, but in case anyone else encounters problems, here's what I had
> to do.
> 
> The only way to get this resolved was with a spare linux rescue cd. I
> reinstalled grub and pointed its root to the old Hoary partition I
> still have
> active.
> 
> The problem was a locked up machine at boot time,
> http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13910
> 
> 
> 
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