Package: grub
Version: 0.5.93.1
Severity: normal
I start the grub shell command, and attempt to access the file
/boot/grub/stage1. In my example I show using a kernel= line (for
simplicity) but the same thing happens with the install command.
I type kernel=/ TAB and I get a correct list, with the cursor after
the /:
grub> kernel=/
Possible files are: lost+found usr hurd1 hurd2 boot vmlinuz lib bin sbin etc var
floppy dev cdrom home initrd mnt proc root tmp vmlinuz.old
grub> kernel=/
Now I type boo TAB TAB and I see:
grub> kernel=/boot/
Possible files are: boot.b.preserved boot.b chain.b os2_d.b mbr.b chain.b.preserved
os2_d.b.preserved grub boot.0301 map config-2.2.14 vmlinuz-2.2.14 System.map-2.2.13
config-2.2.13 vmlinuz-2.2.13 System.map-2.2.14
grub> kernel=/boot/
Now I type gru TAB. It completes, but with no trailing slash and a space.
It thinks "grub" is a regular file:
grub> kernel=/boot/grub
So I hit BS /stage1 RET, and I get:
grub> kernel=/boot/grub/stage1
Disk read error
Note that the following does not report that sort of error, and the
error it does give indicates it is able to read the file:
grub> kernel=/boot/System.map-2.2.14
Invalid or unsupported executable format
-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Kernel Version: Linux aquinas 2.2.14 #1 Sat Feb 12 22:05:58 EST 2000 i686 unknown
Versions of the packages grub depends on:
ii libc6 2.1.3-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libncurses4 4.2-8 Shared libraries for terminal handling
