On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 06:50:34PM -0000, [email protected] wrote: > I was just curious as to where the issue resided. Is the grub.cfg stanza > syntax erroneous or is it correct and some downstream function at fault?
The syntax was wrong. It was produced because Ubuntu prefers to run without /boot/grub/device.map, which is an upstream goal but not one that's generally enabled by default as yet. We have a patch to improve behaviour in that situation, but at some point when merging a new upstream release I missed a new situation that needed to be handled. So it's not really possible to say either that it was an upstream bug or an Ubuntu-specific bug in this case; it was a bit of both. Either way, it wasn't terribly worrisome because the following 'search' command generally finds the correct device by UUID, and the 'set root=' line is only a fallback mechanism. Still, it was untidy and confused people, so I wanted to clean it up anyway. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/820500 Title: update-grub generates illegal directive in grub.cfg To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/820500/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
