Ubuntu
grub package

[feisty] wrong menu.lst makes booting imposible

Bug #78901 reported by Henrique Ferreiro
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grub (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Colin Watson

Bug Description

I have just upgraded to feisty using update-manager. As of linux-image-2.6.20-4, all ide disks were renamed from hda* to sda* but the automatically generated menu.lst part continues to use root=/dev/hda2, so I cannot boot without changing it manually at system start up.

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lp:ubuntu/lucid/grub
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Roberto Sarrionandia (rbs-tito) wrote :

Is this with the custom partition manager or did you go with defaults?

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Henrique Ferreiro (henrique-ferreiro) wrote :

I used update-manager. I had edgy installed first.

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Henrique Ferreiro (henrique-ferreiro) wrote :

I investingated a bit and it seems that update-manager takes the kernel parameters from fstab (where I have the correct UUIDs) unless kopt options are present in grub configuration's file. And my menu.lst had these two lines:

# kopt=root=UUID=...
# kopt_2_6=root=/dev/hda2

So the last line was used as the kernel root parameter.
I deleted that line and update-grub worked as expected using UUID.

Anyway something must be done to prevent this.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

grub (0.97-20ubuntu2) feisty; urgency=low

  * Fix broken comma-separation for memtest86 boot items.
  * Migrate existing kopt_2_6 options to UUID (LP: #78901).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:29:08 +0000

Changed in grub:
assignee: nobody → kamion
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
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