Hi On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 01:10:42PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 01:59:15PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > > I'm not the original reporter but experience the similar problem, > > getting 'unaligned pointer 0x4c1b0297'. I tried to collect the > > information you requested for that: > > Thanks. This is the most interesting part: > > > Generating core.img > > Saving menu.lst backup in /boot/grub/menu.lst_backup_by_grub2_postinst > > Running update-grub Legacy to hook our core.img in it > [...] > > I've just gone through an extensive debugging session with an affected > user on IRC who had the same symptom (thanks, dileX), and I believe I > understand the problem now. I would like to confirm one fact with the > people who have contributed to this bug report so far, namely: > > Does the file /boot/grub/stage2 exist on your system? > > I strongly suspect at this point that that will be the case for all of > you, and if that's the case then I know what to do.
Yes I can confirm: /boot/grub/stage2 exists on the problematic hosts! Thanks for your work, Colin Bests Salvatore
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