Package: fai-client Version: 4.0~beta2+experimental23 According to Grub 2 (aka grub_pc) documentation http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub-2.html :
> Critical! GRUB 2 uses PARTITION notation that starts with 1 and not 0 > like GRUB legacy! This is terribly important to remember! However, the program device2grub which comes as part of FAI (I am using the experimental series, version 4.0~beta2+experimental23 at the moment) does not appear to differentiate between grub legacy and grub 2. This program is called from scripts/GRUB_PC/10-setup and will produce off-by-one partition numbers for grub 2. The bug is manifested only if grub is to be installed into an unusual paritition, like /dev/sda6 . The usual /dev/sda case is handled gracefully because the translated name "(hd0)" does not contain a partition number. I was hit by this when /dev/sda6 was translated incorrectly into "(hd0,5)" and grub2 got installed on top of an NTFS Windows partition (/dev/sda5), destroying the filesystem structure. Luckily, I had backups available... I think device2grub needs a flag which would inhibit the decrement of partition number in case it is used in conjunction with grub_pc and scripts/GRUB_PC/10-setup needs to make use of this flag. I also think that this should be fixed before squeeze is released (do I need to file a bug report into Debian BTS to make it official?) because grub_pc is the default bootloader for squeeze and this bug has potential of corrupting unsuspecting people's data if they install dual-boot systems. -- Toomas Tamm e-mail: tt-deb (at) kky.ttu.ee Chair of Inorganic Chemistry voice: INT+372-620-2810 Tallinn University of Technology fax: INT+372-620-2828 Ehitajate tee 5, EE-19086 Tallinn, Estonia http://www.kk.ttu.ee/toomas/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
