[bug #20692] Grub embeds stage 1.5 to wrong device

[Computer Dude]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?20692>

                 Summary: Grub embeds stage 1.5 to wrong device
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: computerdude
            Submitted on: Sunday 08/05/2007 at 06:51
                Category: Configuration
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Software Error
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 0.97
         Reproducibility: None
         Planned Release: 

    _______________________________________________________

Details:

With GNU Grub 0.97, while I was attempting to install Grub on a loopback
device, it failed to embed e2fs_stage1_5 onto the loopback device, so it
embedded it onto my hard drive instead, and prevented my computer from
booting!

# losetup /dev/loop0 floppy.img
# grub
grub> device (fd0) /dev/loop0
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (fd0)
(checking whether some files exist, can't remember exactly which ones)
Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (fd0)"... failed (this is not fatal)
Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,0)"... failed (this is not fatal)
<----- This should not have happened
Running "install (some parameters)"... successful
grub> quit
# losetup -d /dev/loop0




    _______________________________________________________

Reply to this item at:

  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?20692>

_______________________________________________
  Message sent via/by Savannah
  http://savannah.gnu.org/