Package: grub-pc Version: 1.96+20080724-14 Severity: grave hey, After a recent upgrade, my laptop became unbootable. I don't have local access to the machine rigth now, so unfortunately the preboot information will have to come from memory.
According to dpkg.log, the upgrade was this one: 2009-01-20 22:37:55 upgrade grub-pc 1.96+20080724-12 1.96+20080724-14 At boot time, grub complains that 'initrd' is an invalid option and refuses to boot. My boot entry looks like this: set root=(hd0,1) search --fs-uuid --set e7bf09bb-8d63-4bbb-84d8-4ada743f643f linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=UUID=e7bf09bb-8d63-4bbb-84d8-4ada743f643f ro initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686 I found through experimentation that deleting the first two lines allows my system to boot again. There are obviously more experiments I could do - see if just removing one of the two lines fixes things, and try downgrading to see if it makes my system bootable again. I haven't had time to do these tests (and probably won't until next week), but I wanted to get a bug filed in the meantime. I'll attach my grub.cfg for reference. -- dann frazier
# # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE # # It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/update-grub using templates # from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub # ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ### set default=0 set timeout=5 set root=(hd0,1) search --fs-uuid --set e7bf09bb-8d63-4bbb-84d8-4ada743f643f if font /usr/share/grub/ascii.pff ; then set gfxmode=640x480 insmod gfxterm insmod vbe terminal gfxterm fi ### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ### set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue set menu_color_highlight=white/blue ### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_hurd ### ### END /etc/grub.d/10_hurd ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ### menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.26-1-686" { set root=(hd0,1) search --fs-uuid --set e7bf09bb-8d63-4bbb-84d8-4ada743f643f linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=UUID=e7bf09bb-8d63-4bbb-84d8-4ada743f643f ro initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686 } menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.26-1-686 (single-user mode)" { set root=(hd0,1) search --fs-uuid --set e7bf09bb-8d63-4bbb-84d8-4ada743f643f linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=UUID=e7bf09bb-8d63-4bbb-84d8-4ada743f643f ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686 } ### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ### ### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ### # This file is an example on how to add custom entries ### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###