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grub2 package

  1. Bug #820500
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 820500

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Re: [Bug 820500] Re: update-grub generates illegal directive in grub.cfg

On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 06:50:34PM -0000, <email address hidden> 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.