This bug has recently bitten me in an unexpected manner! I had just done a new installation of Debian testing on my MacBook Pro with GUID partition table (GPT), using the 6 August 2008 testing-amd64-netinst.iso. Towards the end of the installation, the installer automatically installed new Grub (grub-pc) to the MBR of the internal HD, but (after resynching GPT and the MBR partition table) then it produced the error message
error: not a regular file Entering rescue mode... I knew that old Grub would work, so I set up a chroot, purged the grub-pc package, installed the older grub package, used update-grub and grub-install and rebooted (again after synching the partition tables). What? The same error... It wasn't until after I just emptied the /boot/grub directory and reinstalled grub, etc, that all was well and my new Debian could be booted. Several hours later, I might add... Mind you, the Debian installer should have asked me whether I wanted to have grub-pc installed, I filed bug #494293 on that. The earlier response to the current bug underlines the importance of my bug. -- Henk Koster "Behavioral axioms are right, but agents make mistakes." Attributed to L.J. Savage -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
