On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:34:38PM +0200, Christian Meyer wrote: > Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 26.02.2008 06:37:47: > > > Ok, i found the bug, symbol link name in reiserfs is not null-ended, > > so we need to add 0 at the end of string: > > I am no programmer, so I had to wait for this: > Robert Millan closed the bug at Debian bug tracking system: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=467025 > but I cannot confirm that the bug is gone in Debians current (sid) version: > 1.96+20080413-1 > > The standard-install of the mentioned version links directly to kernel and > ramdisk, so it works. > But if you change grub.cfg to load kernel and ramdisk via symlink the error > still exists: > > menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux (4.0) (on /dev/hda3)" { > set root=(hd0,3) > linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 ramdisk_size=100000 lang=de apm=power-off > nomce vga=0x317 quiet noresume splash > initrd /initrd.img > } > > results in: > error: you must load the kernel first > > typing the commands manually at grub-prompt leads to > error: file not found > after the linux /vmlinuz ... line. > > > An interesting behavior of the older version (before February 25, 2008) seems > to be gone: > (I discovered it after you committed your changes so I thought it is useless) > If you waited for the boot-countdown the symlinks worked as expected > (system-boot), but > if you selected the same line manually (e.g. by just pressing enter) leads to > error: you must load the kernel first > > Please let me know if I can provide additional information.
Please provide a filesystem image where we can reproduce this -- Robert Millan "The technological evasion of the license is as unacceptable as the legal evasion of the license [...]. That's the provision in section 1 regarding keys. [...] We say one thing: when you sell somebody a home... give him the keys" -- Eben Moglen on GPLv3 _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
