Bug#98785: grub: cant install

[Martin Butterweck]

Package: grub
Version: 0.5.96.1-0.1
Severity: normal

--- grub output ---
grub> root (hd0,5)
 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

grub> setup (hd0)
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
 Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"...  15 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
 Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd0) (hd0)1+15 p
(hd0,5)/boot/grub/stage
2"... failed

Error 22: No such partition

grub> quit
--- grub output ---
--- fdisk output ---
Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3111 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1       269   2160711    b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2           270      3111  22828365    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5           270      1168   7221186    b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda6          1169      1181    104391   83  Linux
/dev/hda7          1182      1692   4104576   83  Linux
/dev/hda8          1693      2203   4104576   83  Linux
/dev/hda9          2204      2458   2048256   83  Linux
/dev/hda10         2459      3111   5245191   83  Linux

Command (m for help): q
--- fdisk output ---

as one can see, the partition /dev/hda6 exists :-)
So the error message must be a bug in grub.

Martin
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux martin 2.4.4 #1 Mon May 21 16:20:24 CEST 2001 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6          2.2.3-1        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libncurses5    5.2.20010318-1 Shared libraries for terminal handling