Bug#1034610: grub-common no longer supports labels

[Dario Andres Susman]

I'm afraid not. This is very old, perhaps, because I've been using "testing" on this box for a long time. I should have saved the patch I did for myself. That's why referenced Bug 568084, because I did apply a change using that patch in /etc/grub.d/10_linux years ago. I should have kept a copy of the file. It wasn't overritten for ages until recently.

Thank you!

Best regards,
Dario Susman


On 20/04/2023 14:57, Steve McIntyre wrote:

Another thing is that even if labels are not used, and UUID are disabled, the kernel (or something else?) switches what device is set for sda or sdb. Hence the problem booting up. I had no choice but to go back UUIDs for now. :\ Rather odd, because if I boot back with linux-6.1.0-6-amd64, it books perfectly (without enabling UUIDs). I must admit, I'm rather confused by and with issue. It may be related with the kernel and not grub, perhaps? :S

Control: severity -1 important

Hi!

On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 02:52:31PM -0300, Dario Susman wrote:

Package: grub-common
Version: 2.06-8
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

Dear Maintainer,

After upgrading to latest version of grub-common and kernel, the system
wouldn't boot up with the latest kernel. The device paths changed, sda1
to sdb1. I noticed that the grub config changed to use UUIDs, however
/etc/default/grub is set to use LABELS. Which is something I prefer to
do.

It seems that grub-mkinfo no longer supports the GRUB_ENABLE_LINUX_LABEL
parameters and has to be re-written for it to work.

Looking in the history, I can't see where we've ever supported
this. Can you tell me which version(s) ever had this working for you
please?

OpenPGP_signature
Description: OpenPGP digital signature