Re: installing a new grub2-version on lenny

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Sonntag, den 17.05.2009, 10:44 +0200 schrieb t_l_u:

> Installed version of grub2 is 1.96+20080724-16.
> 
> I did the following:
> 

You can just install the package from sid or even experimental.
No need to compile everything yourself and if you do you have both the
old and new version installed which isn't always that good.
> 
> New modules are created and copied to the target. The
> file /boot/grub/grub.cfg wasn't recreated. It's the same as before.

grub.cfg is created by grub-mkconfig.
Use it like `grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg'.

> 3. Than I want to install these. But I got an error:
> 
> grub-install --no-floppy --recheck /dev/sda 
> [  242.907820] grub-setup[2809]: segfault at 0 ip 080490fa sp bffeff1c
> error 4 in grub-setup[8048000+20000] 
> /usr/local/sbin/grub-install:  line 307: 11086 Segmentation fault
> $grub_setup ${setup_verbose} ${setup_force} --directory=${grubdir}
> --device-map=${device_map} ${install_device}
> 
> Why? I don't know and I don't understand.

You're not the first one reporting this.
See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-05/msg00197.html



> One question only: What I'd done wrong? I can't believe that the new
> version should have such serious mistake.

Nothing. It's a bug in the code which can always happen in SVN trunk.
We don't guarantee that SVN trunk is always usable.

-- 
Felix Zielcke