Package: linux-base
Version: 2.6.32-30
I upgraded my Debian box to squeeze today, and after the initial
"install new kernel and udev" the system didn't boot because
linux-base hadn't correctly updated lilo.conf to use UUIDs rather
than /dev/hd*.
My lilo.conf had a stanza for the kernel like this:
# Linux kernel options:
image=/boot/vmlinuz # where to find it...
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
label=Linux # name to type to boot it
alias=l
root=/dev/hdb2 # Linux partition is D: 2nd partition
read-only # don't allow writes until it's been checked
...and linux-base's postinst didn't update the root= parameter.
This appears to be because _lilo_update() decides whether
to update an image= stanza using this regex:
$in_generic = ($value =~ m|^/vmlinuz(?:\.old)?$|);
...which will only match if you were keeping your kernels
in /, not if they're in /boot/ as mine are.
Given that once you're running the new kernel lilo will
fail to handle the stanzas with /dev/hd* in them:
Fatal: Illegal 'root=' specification: /dev/hdb2
it seems to me that the best approach would be to rewrite
them in all image= stanzas.
-- PMM
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