Heyho! I'm still using LILO because grub-pc doesn't work for me.
I found part of the problem: scripts/GRUB_PC/10-setup has a static list of grub modules to be included in core.img; with squeeze's grub version, some of these modules were renamed or are not available anymore. $ROOTCMD grub-mkimage --output=/boot/grub/core.img ext2 pc gpt biosdisk lvm ... $ROOTCMD /usr/sbin/grub-install --no-floppy --modules="ext2 _chain pc gpt biosdisk lvm raid serial" "($grub_dev)" Of these modules, grub 1.98~20100115-1 doesn't contain at least pc.mod (perhaps part_msdos.mod?), _chain.mod (presumably is now chain.mod), gpt.mod (probably part_gpt.mod.) I found grub can figure out the list of needed module fine in usual cases, but I appreciate that lvm/raid/... cases might need the manual specification of the modules. (Or is this a problem with running from the FAI chroot? I only tried from a natively booted system.) The next problem was that the partitioner apparently generates partitions without post mbr gap (before the start of the first partition.) grub-setup now needs the --force argument to allow using a block-list. (Not sure if this still happens with a freshly cleared partition sector, might be left- over from an older version. I just re-installed fai.) At this point (sorry - as long as I have a workaround, my boss is not really paying the debugging on this) I again returned to LILO. cheers -- vbi (btw, with a dd if=/dev/zero'ed partition sector, I didn't see the undefined variables during partitioning I reported when I brought this up the first time.) -- featured link: http://www.pool.ntp.org
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