** Description changed:
Binary package hint: grub
- update-grub in ubuntu has new and, for me, entirely
- unwanted functionality which is broken, incorrect and
+ update-grub in edgy has new and, for me, undesirable functionality which
renders the system unbootable without skilled intervention.
1) update-grub should not mess with kopt at all, except
in the case of an initial install. From menu.list:
### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified
- ## by the debian update-grub script >>>>except for the default options
below<<<<
+ ## by the debian update-grub script
+ ## EXCEPT FOR THE DEFAULT OPTIONS BELOW
## ## Start Default Options ##
- ## default kernel options
- ## default kernel options for automagic boot options
- ## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z
- ## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted.
- ## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
- ## kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro
- ## kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro
- # kopt=root=UUID=05df6308-cc97-4b8f-a3db-d9f5665667b8 ro
+ ## default kernel options
+ Old kopt:
+ #kopt=root=/dev/hda6 etcetc
+ After update-grub:
+ #kopt=root=UUID=05df6308-cc97-4b8f-a3db-d9f5665667b8 ro
- 2) grub's entirely unwanted trashing of my kopt, which I have set exactly as
I want it, doesn't work. The fact that it is doing this without user input,
either as a debconf setting
+ 2) grub's unrequested trashing of my kopt, which I have set exactly as I want
it, doesn't work. The fact that it is doing this without user input, either as
a debconf setting
or from update-grub itself, is .... not so good...
- 3) please revert update-grub to the way it has worked for
- years. In the meantime I will pin it back to Dapper.
+ 3) while I might want to point my root at LABEL=ubuntu
+ or whatever, I don't know why I'd want to use UUID. Perhaps there is a good
reason, but to me it is ugly and
+ essentially non-human-readable (I still like the Old Way of
+ human-readable config files). Apparently my kernels
+ don't much like UUID either; don't know how they feel about
+ LABEL yet.
+
+ Workaround: I'll pin it back to dapper.
+
+ Thanks.
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edgy update-grub destroys kopt
https://launchpad.net/bugs/62195
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