Public bug reported:
I had SuSE 8.2 on /dev/hda2 on an old machine, and I installed Dapper
(initially 6.04) on /dev/hdb2. I used lilo as the boot loader, on
/dev/hda.
I attempted to boot into Dapper, and ended up with the Dapper kernel and
my old SuSE 8.2!
The problem is on the initrd.img, in file scripts/functions.
The function parse_numeric does not correctly parse the root device
number.
The following diffs show a fix that works for me. Sorry but I don't know
which package was use to create the initrd.
--- functions_broken 2006-06-17 17:27:04.000000000 +0100
+++ fixed/scripts/functions 2006-06-17 17:27:49.000000000 +0100
@@ -239,10 +239,14 @@
minor=${1#*:}
major=${1%:*}
;;
- *)
+ ????)
minor=$((0x${1#??}))
major=$((0x${1%??}))
;;
+ ???)
+ minor=$((0x${1#?}))
+ major=$((0x${1%??}))
+ ;;
esac
mknod /dev/root b ${major} ${minor}
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Untriaged
Status: Unconfirmed
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Dapper fails to boot off second disk
https://launchpad.net/bugs/50128
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