Re: grub2: update-grub generates broken grub.cfg when /boot is a separate partition

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 08:28:09PM +0200, Szántó Dániel wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:19:05AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:25:53PM +0200, Szántó Dániel wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:15:48AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > 
> > > > Can you try "ln -s . /boot/boot" and confirm this works around the 
> > > > problem?
> > > 
> > > Nothing changes, after symlinking /boot to /boot/boot update-grub 
> > > generates exactly the same grub.cfg.
> > 
> > Does it boot now?
> 
> No,

Ah.  Well, I spotted a problem with update-grub not generating relative paths
when /boot is a separate partition.

But it seems you hit other bugs related with RAID.  I'm afraid I can't comment
on these.

> It gives the same error message:
>   Booting "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.20-1-amd64"
> 
> error: you need to load the kernel first
> 
> Press any key to continue...
> 
> If I edit the grub command line and settings to set root to hd0,0 and 
> the linux kernel paramter to root=/dev/md0, I get the same error if
> the cursor is below the last line. If the cursor is at the end of the 
> last line I get 
> error: Out of memory
> instead.
> I 
> DTR
> 

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