Bug#593806: os-prober: os-prober creates an unbootable entry

[jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl]

Package: os-prober
Version: 1.39
Severity: important

On an old computer I still use Sarge from time to time (my TV card
doesn't work in any later version...). I can boot the system with no
problem with chainloading, but I'm unable to boot it directly,
although the entries look correctly, e.g.

menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux (3.1) (on /dev/sdb2)" {
	insmod part_msdos
	insmod ext2
	set root='(hd1,msdos2)'
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set f5ce7115-77d3-433c-9abc-a604aba64dce
	linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-3-k7 root=/dev/sdb2
	initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.20-3-k7
}

After selecting the entry the computer reboots with no error message.

Regards

JSB

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-486
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages os-prober depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-2   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

os-prober recommends no packages.

os-prober suggests no packages.

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