Your message dated Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:47:05 +0000
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and subject line Bug#435708: fixed in grub 0.97-33
has caused the Debian Bug report #435708,
regarding update-grub fails to recognize mount points in /etc/fstab if the
entry contains a trailing slash
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Package: grub
Version: 0.97-27
Severity: important
Tags: patch
Hello,
on my machine, I have a separate /boot partition. I found that
update-grub did not recognize this fact, but wrote the complete path
/boot/vmlinuz... into the /boot/grub/menu.lst file. Because of this,
the system did not boot after a call to update-grub.
I checked /sbin/update-grub. I found out that update-grub indeed looks
for mount points; nevertheless, it did not recognize it in my case. The
reason was found rather quickly: My /etc/fstab contained a line like
/dev/sda7 /boot/ ...
If I remove the trailing shlash from the mount point and make the line
look like follows, update-grub happily recognizes the mount point and
does not behave erroneously anymore:
/dev/sda7 /boot ...
>From my understanding and what I have found so far, the original entry
in fstab is fully legal; thus, update-grub is wrong.
I rated this bug as "important" as it leaves the user's machine in a
non-booting state. In fact, my first "solution" was to replaced
update-grub with a tool that called the old update-grub and performed a
sed to fix the paths.
The attached patch fixes the problem in a straight-forward way. I am not
sure if it is the best way, however. It might be a better idea to fix
fix find_device(). I did not perform this change, as I am not sure about
any side-effects this might cause.
Note: I tested this problem with Debian Sarge, Debian Etch, and even
with a Ubuntu 6.10 system: All show the same behaviour.
Regards,
Spiro
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-486
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand
grub recommends no packages.
-- debconf-show failed
update-grub_boot.diff.gz
Description: Binary data
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: grub
Source-Version: 0.97-33
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
grub, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
grub-disk_0.97-33_all.deb
to pool/main/g/grub/grub-disk_0.97-33_all.deb
grub-doc_0.97-33_all.deb
to pool/main/g/grub/grub-doc_0.97-33_all.deb
grub-legacy-doc_0.97-33_all.deb
to pool/main/g/grub/grub-legacy-doc_0.97-33_all.deb
grub_0.97-33.diff.gz
to pool/main/g/grub/grub_0.97-33.diff.gz
grub_0.97-33.dsc
to pool/main/g/grub/grub_0.97-33.dsc
grub_0.97-33_amd64.deb
to pool/main/g/grub/grub_0.97-33_amd64.deb
multiboot-doc_0.97-33_all.deb
to pool/main/g/grub/multiboot-doc_0.97-33_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated grub package)
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Format: 1.7
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:31:41 +0100
Source: grub
Binary: grub grub-disk grub-doc grub-legacy-doc multiboot-doc
Architecture: source amd64 all
Version: 0.97-33
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Grub Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Changed-By: Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
grub - GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy version)
grub-disk - GRUB bootable disk image (dummy package)
grub-doc - Documentation for GRand Unified Bootloader (dummy package)
grub-legacy-doc - Documentation for GRUB Legacy
multiboot-doc - The Multiboot specification
Closes: 284790 301373 435708 441080 443897 463274
Changes:
grub (0.97-33) experimental; urgency=low
.
* control (grub): Suggest multiboot-doc.
* update-grub: Rewrite find_device() and convert() using grub-probe from
grub-common package. (Closes: #435708, #443897, #463274, #301373, #284790)
* patches/use_grub-probe_in_grub-install.diff: Do the same for grub-install.
(Closes: #441080)
Files:
e972acf9a82556e330e5b2af8a273f59 941 admin optional grub_0.97-33.dsc
7f782c16b16cfdf1a3c05289ea2263cc 75893 admin optional grub_0.97-33.diff.gz
2c153dda271232b1a15805afbad67ba1 885066 admin optional grub_0.97-33_amd64.deb
45520660d2af5f4cf606ddb51d3e7f77 112898 admin optional
grub-disk_0.97-33_all.deb
3c3ff3830565826a39326734866d1171 112912 doc optional grub-doc_0.97-33_all.deb
460ccc69a4c22629ea186b31a07b96e9 233964 doc optional
grub-legacy-doc_0.97-33_all.deb
e0ff8ef8e95aee4698dbecd6cfe5e4ef 158054 doc optional
multiboot-doc_0.97-33_all.deb
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