Your message dated Sat, 16 Aug 2025 15:55:37 -0400 (EDT) with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#1110934: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #333720, regarding grub: Has shift primary partition table 16 bytes to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: grub Version: 0.95+cvs20040624-17 Severity: normal I have installed Debian Sarge on a USB 2.0 HDD. It is a Lacie 200GB disk. dmesg reports this on the disk itself: Vendor: Maxtor Model: 6B200P0 I am using it for more than 4 months now, to do backups and have the same Sarge environment no matter which PC I'm at. Tuesday I had a hard crash, requiring me to use the reset button. After this event the disk failed to boot and couldn't be read by my main desktop machine (that is running Sid recently). Apparantly the MBR was damaged. Using information gathered from the internet I managed to rebuild my primary partition table using a hexeditor. fdisk, cfdisk, parted and sfdisk weren't up for the task and complicated matters further. After learning about 0xAA55, CHS, sectors, 0x83, 0x82, gpart (guesses possible partitions, it gave way to many results, but helped a lot) little endian etc. I managed read my data again. fsck gave no errors. It seemed plausible only the MBR was damaged. Rebooting into the disk using a Grub-floppy nothing seemed wrong. So it was time to reinstall GRUB onto the disk itself. grub-install /dev/sda resulted in a complained about a failure to read /boot/grub/stage1. While surfing for answers what this means I experienced another complete system crash. After resetting the MBR was damaged again. Now used the hexeditor immediately and noticed that the primary partition table was shifted 16 bytes. It was replaced by GRUB code. I'm attaching a dump of the first to sectors of the disk. If it isn't a GRUB bug, please give me pointers on solving this! Paul Frederiks
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--- Begin Message ---Apologies; this wasn't sent as part of the dak rm action. I'm doing this by hand. Since this was manual, this opens the chance for me taking action by mistake. I got the list of bugs via UDD, and am closing via -close on BCC. I spot checked about 10 of the bugs, and they're all src:grub. The COUNT matches the tracker page, so I'm sending this. If I have closed a bug that's not about bin:grub or src:grub, please do re-open the bug. paultag We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following package(s) have been removed from unstable: grub | 0.97-84 | source grub-legacy | 0.97-84 | amd64, i386 ------------------- Reason ------------------- ROM; dead upstream, replaced by grub2 ---------------------------------------------- Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug. The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references it). Please also remember that the changes have been done on the master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the earliest. Packages are usually not removed from testing by hand. Testing tracks unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency problems. The release team can force a removal from testing if it is really needed, please contact them if this should be the case. We try to close bugs which have been reported against this package automatically. But please check all old bugs, if they were closed correctly or should have been re-assigned to another package. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [email protected]. The full log for this bug can be viewed at https://bugs.debian.org/1110934 This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Paul Tagliamonte (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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