Bug#80241: grub: Error 22: No such partition

[Gergely Nagy]

Package: grub
Version: 0.5.96.1
Severity: important

I have GNU/Linux and FreeBSD on the same 20Gb hard disk.
GRUB 0.5.95 worked perfectly, but 0.5.96 broke miserably, and
0.5.96.1 didn't fix it.

The problem is the following:

grub> root (hd0,
 Possible partitions are:
   Partition num: 0,  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
   Partition num: 1, [BSD sub-partitions immediately follow]
     BSD Partition num: 'a',  Filesystem type is ffs, partition type 0xa5
   Partition num: 2,  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
   Partition num: 3, [BSD sub-partitions immediately follow]
     BSD Partition num: 'b',  Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5

grub> root (hd0,0)
 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

grub> setup (hd0)                      
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
 Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"...  15 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
 Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd0) (hd0)1+15 p (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage
2"... failed
     
Error 22: No such partition
     
grub>     

The same with GRUB from CVS as of 2000-12-17:

grub> root (hd0,0)
 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

grub> setup (hd0)
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
 Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"...  15 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
 Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd0) (hd0)1+15 p (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage
2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded
Done.

grub>

The files /boot/grub/stage{1,2} and e2fs_stage1_5 are those that come with
the corresponding grub version.

I guess the problem was fixed between 200-12-09 and 2000-12-17,
because 2000-12-05 did not work, but -17 did.

Please upload a CVS snapshot, so I can have an official and working
GRUB.

Thanks,
 Gergely Nagy \ mhp/|8]
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