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Bug#695500: d-i-n-i: #695500 is apparently a grub-mkimage (or debian-installer) bug



Control: reassign -1 src:debian-installer 20120828 , grub-common 1.99-27
Control: tags -1 -moreinfo
Control: affects -1 +debian-installer-7.0-netboot-kfreebsd-i386
Control: affects -1 +debian-installer-7.0-netboot-kfreebsd-amd64

Hi all,

I spent some more time debugging this RC bug by setting up my server and 
testing the PXE boot of kfreebsd-i386 on two different laptops; the 
results are:

* the "error: prefix is not set" error always appears when using the 
wheezy grub2pxe; it also happens with the current sid grub2pxe [0];
* the resistance to this error apparently depends on the PXE 
implementation:
  - my "acer Aspire One" displays the error and then proceeds to
    displaying grub, then allowing the boot of the kfreebsd-i386
    installer;
  - my "ThinkPad X220" displays the error and stops;
  - kvm launched locally with [1] proceeds to grub;

[0] http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-kfreebsd-i386/20130430/images/netboot/grub2pxe
[1] kvm -m 256 -net nic -net -
user,bootfile=/grub2pxe,tftp=/usr/lib/debian-installer/images/7.0/kfreebsd-amd64/gtk/

As debian-installer-netboot-images is only copying these files from the 
mirrors, I don't think it is the correct source package to track this 
bug. The above tests now make me think that this is either a problem of 
debian-installer calling grub-mkimage wrongly in 
build/config/kfreebsd.cfg or a bug in grub-mkimage not incorporating the 
prefix correctly when creating a PXE image. I'm therefore hereby 
reassigning this bug to both these packages (in their wheezy versions) 
and marking it as affecting the correct d-i-n-i binary packages.

Cheers,
OdyX

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