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bug #38095: grub should search for bootable partitions if it fails to boot

Submitter:  Jay Broni <jbroni>
Submitted:  Tue 15 Jan 2013 03:25:44 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Booting Severity:  Major
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Feature Request
Status:  Wont Fix Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Originator Name:  jbroni
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  1.98
Release:  Reproducibility:  None
Planned Release:  None

Wed 16 Jan 2013 03:16:33 PM UTC, comment #4: 

I can see you are not interested in improving grub2, only defending it. Too bad since it would have been a very nice step up from the behavior of original grub.

Jay Broni <jbroni>
Wed 16 Jan 2013 03:02:34 PM UTC, comment #3: 

In case of failure of GRUB-Legacy at those stages you just get an error message, no prompt at all.

Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder>
Group administrator
Wed 16 Jan 2013 02:56:34 PM UTC, comment #2: 

What's unrealistic is the size/complexity increase from grub to grub2 and the poor failure mechanisms of grub2. Having grub2 fall back to looking at the mbr's of the disks installed and perhaps the partitions therein can't be that difficult. All the framework is already there. It would certainly make recovery of a confused system much easier for most users if grub2 behaved this way. Even experienced uses don't drop down to the grub2 command interface very often...

Jay Broni <jbroni>
Wed 16 Jan 2013 07:53:33 AM UTC, comment #1: 

If GRUB fails it usually happens because core can't find modules. Since core is limited in size adding such functionality to it is unrealistic.

Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder>
Group administrator
Tue 15 Jan 2013 03:25:44 PM UTC, original submission:  

Grub should search for bootable partitions if it fails (or at least present an option to do so). A functionality like the supergrub2 disk would save a lot problems trying to a get a broken system to boot. See http://www.supergrubdisk.org/super-grub2-disk/


Jay Broni <jbroni>

 

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