grub-installer

Not equivalent to root(hd), setup(hd)

Bug #29329 reported by Emilian Bold
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grub-installer
Invalid
Undecided
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Baltix
Invalid
Undecided
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grub (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
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Bug Description

Hy,

I just finished a 4 hour struggle with grub and grub-install after I installed windows xp and trashed my partition table and existing grub on the mbr.

After restoring the partition types and other fun stuff, grub-install wouldn't work!

I always got The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly.

After many reboots, I tried manually from grub

root(hdX,Z)
setup(hdX)

and grub was installed.

This looks to me as a bug in grub-install or a pretty missleading error message.

PS: The partition order was changed by the XP installer but I changed menu.lst and fstab. Of course that grub-install didn't work till the end.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

grub-install is part of grub, not grub-installer (the latter is an installer component).

Changed in grub-installer:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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Sam Brightman (sambrightman) wrote :

Colin, what do you mean by "[grub-installer] is an installer component"? Does this mean that bug 45989 and bug 46520 are also filed against the wrong package?

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Adam Niedling (krychek) wrote :

The version of Ubuntu you were using when you reported this bug is not supported anymore. Please reopen if this is still an issue with a later version of Ubuntu.

Changed in grub:
status: New → Invalid
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Emilian Bold (emilianb) wrote :

I'm sorry but it's been almost 3 years since I've posted that bug so I won't be able to report if the bug is still there or not.

I guess this is also a way to decrease the bug count, just let them die of old age...

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Adam Niedling (krychek) wrote :

I'm sorry that no one got back to you earlier. I don't see what's the point in keeping a bug open if the original reporter can't test it anymore. As I mentioned this bug can be reopened as every other bug if someone encounters the same issue.

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Emilian Bold (emilianb) wrote :

You are right of course. Anyhow, I've stopped using Windows entirely about 6 months after that initial bug report so one might say it was a tipping point.

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