On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 12:55:43AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > reassign 583271 grub-common > reassign 586380 grub-common > forcemerge 583271 585177 586380 > thanks > > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 01:37:51AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > Package: grub-pc > > Version: 1.98+20100614-2 > > Severity: serious > > > > I had to boot from a rescue CD with an older kernel and chrooted > > into my /, which is /dev/hda1 for that kernel. I ran update-grub > > and isntall-grub. > > > > I then rebooted and it passed "root=/dev/hda1" to the kernel. But > > the new kernel calls this /dev/sda1. So it failed to boot. > > Fixing this manually allowed me to boot. > > This is basically the same as #583271 and #585177. Merging - I do > intend to fix this for squeeze one way or another, although it will > probably involve a grotty packaging-level hack of some kind.
I was more suprised that it seems to depend on the kernel version. > > Something also seems to be generating a /boot/grub/menu.lst > > yesterday, not sure why since I don't grub1 instaled anymore. > > And that's full of entried with root=/dev/hda1, which won't work > > of course. > > > > ls shows: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9228 2010-06-17 23:49:07.000000000 +0200 > > /boot/grub/menu.lst > > This is really more to do with your previous bug, but this does rather > suggest that you originally upgraded from GRUB Legacy and have run > grub-install at some point since then rather than running > upgrade-from-grub-legacy, which would put you squarely in the middle of > #586143. I can atleast confirm that I have the stage2 file. I assume that I followed the upgrade instructions, but I really can't tell. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
