Bug 755887

Summary: grub - expr: non-numeric argument
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Kazuhiro Takenaka <takenakak>
Component: grubAssignee: Peter Jones <pjones>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Release Test Team <release-test-team>
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Description Kazuhiro Takenaka 2011-11-22 10:21:47 UTC 
Description of problem:


On HP Proliant DL360G4, running grub-install makes 
the system unbootable.

grub-install reports 
"Installation finished. No error reported."

But before this message, grub-install complains
"expr: non-numeric argument"

After this, the machine won't boot by reboot.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

grub-0.97-70

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install RHEL6.1 into a certain parition.
2. Install RHEL6.1 into another partion.
3. Boot from the partition of step 2.
4. mount the partition of step 1 to /mnt
5. run the following command
# grub-install --root-direcotry=/mnt /dev/cciss/c0d0
6. reboot the machine.
  
Actual results:

The boot process of the machine stalls.

Expected results:

The machine boots from the partition of step 1.
Comment 2 David Cantrell 2011-12-07 20:25:08 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 736833 ***