Package: memtest86+
Version: 2.11-3
Severity: important
Tags: patch
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After upgrading GRUB 2 memtest86+ cannot be launched
anymore. GRUB says that the linux16 command should be used
to boot into memtest86+ instead of the linux command.
I've attached a patch against debian/grub that fixes this
and also fixes bug #522345.
Cheers,
Avi.
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
memtest86+ depends on no packages.
memtest86+ recommends no packages.
Versions of packages memtest86+ suggests:
ii grub-pc [grub] 1.96+20090725-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version
pn hwtools <none> (no description available)
pn kernel-patch-badram <none> (no description available)
pn memtest86 <none> (no description available)
pn memtester <none> (no description available)
ii mtools 4.0.10-1 Tools for manipulating MSDOS files
- -- no debconf information
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Index: memtest86+-2.11/debian/grub
===================================================================
--- memtest86+-2.11.orig/debian/grub 2009-08-04 12:37:21.000000000 +0300
+++ memtest86+-2.11/debian/grub 2009-08-04 12:41:20.000000000 +0300
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
#!/bin/sh
set -e
-. /usr/lib/grub/update-grub_lib
+. /usr/lib/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib
if test -e /boot/memtest86+.bin ; then
MEMTESTPATH=$( make_system_path_relative_to_its_root "/boot/memtest86+.bin" )
echo "Found memtest86+ image: $MEMTESTPATH" >&2
cat << EOF
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
- linux $MEMTESTPATH
+ linux16 $MEMTESTPATH
}
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" {
- linux $MEMTESTPATH console=ttyS0,115200n8
+ linux16 $MEMTESTPATH console=ttyS0,115200n8
}
EOF
fi
