On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 06:46:34PM -0400, Andres Cimmarusti wrote: > I had to do a fresh install of squeeze because I got a new hard drive. > Shortly after finishing up the installation I full-upgraded and that pulled > grub-pc 1.98-1 and it installed without errors. > > The reason for the previous failure was that I was running 2.6.33 kernel > from experimental. This changed my /dev/hd* to /dev/sd* and caused > grub-setup to fail. So, in reality, you should close this bug, because it > doesn't affect squeeze (strictly speaking). However, work might be required > when 2.6.33 enters sid.
No, this bug (which I've merged with a cluster of other similar bugs) should remain open because it affects all kinds of situations where device names might change, not just the narrow situation involved in the transition to libata. /dev/[hs]d* device names have not been stable for some years now, and GRUB should not be relying on them. For example, consider the case of removable USB devices on a system that also has SCSI disks - which one happens to get /dev/sda is essentially random in many configurations. Don't worry - this bug is well-understood and we're on the path to a fix, so there's little point trying to optimise things by closing the bug. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
