Am Montag, den 27.07.2009, 15:26 +0200 schrieb Adolf Winterer: > Hi, > > I can confirm the problem. This is the sequence that leads to the problem: > > * Install Lenny 5.0.2 > This will automatically use grub2, the system is perfectly bootable. > > * Add Squeeze to the sources.list > After updating the package list the packages grub-common and grub-pc are > shown > as updateable. > > * Update grub-common and grub-pc > During the update a requestor shows up in the terminal window of Synaptic > asking for the device to install grub into. Here it is /dev/sda3. The
You probable mean /dev/sda. We don't ask for partitions. > > requestor pops up again, this time I only hit the enter key as there is only > one target to install to. The installation process continues then with no > apparent error. If you get asked twice then this may be a bug in Synaptic. I never used it. I just installed now lenny in a vm, upgraded grub-pc and grub-common to squeeze and selected /dev/sda and rebooted. Worked fine. Then I did dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc to remove the selections of /dev/sda and tried the same. And it failed with unknown command initrd. Replacing the root=UUID with root=/dev/sda1 didn't help. Well anyway it's a bug we already fixed and that's why we implemented the debconf prompt now. Are you sure that /dev/sda was seletected the 2nd time you were asked? Did you see the output of grub-install? Maybe try dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc > * Permanent solution > Something is wrong with using UUIDs in connection with booting, because > uncommenting the according line in /etc/defaults/grub: > GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true > and running update-grub changes the file /boot/grub/grub.cfg. The line > with "search ... --fsuid ..." is still present, but the line with "linux ..." > has changed to reflect /dev/sda3 as boot device. > > Therefore the presence of the line containing "search ..." or the length of > the line do not seem to be a problem, but using the UUID is. > That's maybe for you a solution. But the real solution is to make sure that grub-install gets run when the package gets upgraded, so you won't be affected by other bugs in the parser etc. For example there were now in the squeeze version a few parser bug fixes, though they didn't affect the default generated config. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
