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--- Begin Message ---Package: grub-efi-amd64 Version: 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 Severity: critical Tags: squeeze Justification: breaks the whole system Hi, this my first bug report, so I'd appreciate any hints, how I can do better. BTW sorry for my english. I installed squeeze on a computer with an uefi firmware. An ArchLinux was already installed on this computer, so I installed squeeze on a separate partition. For booting I used the already installed grub2 of ArchLinux, which worked fine also for squeeze. The time I was satisfied with my setup of squeeze, I wanted to get rid of ArchLinux. This included installing the squeeze package grub-efi-amd64. But booting with grub 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 failed with a kernel panic, something like: not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) I found out, that this problem is somehow known: http://william.shallum.net/random-notes/windows-7-linux-uefi-dual-boot "Install grub-efi-amd64 from wheezy, not squeeze. Squeeze version doesn't properly pass initrd to the kernel, resulting in the error Kernel Panic ..." But I couldn't find any bug report on this topic, so here it is. Because I have no clue what the problem is, I worked around. I somehow managed, to backport the grub2-source-package of wheezy (1.99-17 at the time of this writing), and build my own grub2. (My version is called 1.99-17hinki, as you can see in the system information below.) This one works fine. For testing purpose I installed it in parallel to the non-working squeeze-grub-efi-amd64. So I could run some tests, if I knew which. In my current setup, the squeeze-grub and the wheezy-backported-grub are using the same configs. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (700, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages grub-efi-amd64 depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy ii grub-common 1.99-17hinki GRand Unified Bootloader (common f ii grub-efi-amd64-bin 1.99-17hinki GRand Unified Bootloader, version ii grub2-common 1.99-17hinki GRand Unified Bootloader (common f ii ucf 3.0025+nmu1 Update Configuration File: preserv grub-efi-amd64 recommends no packages. grub-efi-amd64 suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded
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--- Begin Message ---version: 1.99-1 Fixed upstream, and doesn't affect wheezy. Still affects squeeze, but it's unlikely to be backported there unless someone has really strong interest. Best wishes, Mike
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