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grub2 package

  1. Bug #563895
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 563895

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Torsten Landschoff (torsten) wrote :

While installation security updates to my lucid system, this made my system unbootable last week. I spent half an hour today to make it bootable again.

I booted from supergrubdisk which also failed to detect LVM (it usually did). I ended up using Knoppix and noticed the leftover snapshot (created via schroot) on boot, deleting it. I then tried to chroot into my Lucid system which failed because Knoppix is i386 and my Lucid install is amd64.

Rebooting with the Lucid installation medium, I was surprised that the grub installation on my hard drive magically started to work again and booted fine into my Lucid install.

I would deem this a really important problem and I am all for fixing it in Lucid given that a patch exists.
BTW: The snapshot name created by schroot is quite long, as it contains a UUID.