Package: grub
Version: 0.95+cvs20040624-18
Severity: important
Tags: patch
There is a small typo in the new update-grub root discovery
functionality that make grub selecting the wrong root device
in case it's not /dev/hda1 (default)! Here is a patch.
Regards.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (800, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13-1-686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
grub recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- /sbin/update-grub 2005-10-29 23:47:22.000000000 +0700
+++ update-grub 2005-10-31 16:22:15.000000000 +0700
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
device=
if [ -f /etc/fstab ] ; then
while read DEV MNT FOO; do
- if [ `echo "$DEV" | grep -q "^#"` ]; then
+ if `echo "$DEV" | grep -q "^#"`; then
continue
fi
if [ "$MNT" = "$mount_point" ]; then
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
device=$(find_device "/")
if [ -z "$device" ]; then
- echo "$PROG: Cannot determine root device. Assuming /dev/hda1"
>&2
+ echo "Cannot determine root device. Assuming /dev/hda1" >&2
echo "This error is probably caused by an invalid /etc/fstab"
>&2
device=/dev/hda1
fi
