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and subject line fixed in grub2
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: grub
Version: 0.97-13
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
Yesterday I upgraded my etch-system with
aptitude dist-upgrade
grub was upgraded from version 0.97-12 to version 0.97-13. During the
upgrade the file /boot/grub/menu.lst was updated incorrectly, the
partition numbers miraculously increased by one. What has been
(hd0,5) and /dev/hda6 was replaced by (hd0,6) and /dev/hda7 resulting
in an unbootable system.
This is the output of "diff -c menu.lst~ menu.lst"
================================================================
*** menu.lst~ Tue Aug 15 23:12:56 2006
--- menu.lst Tue Aug 15 23:12:56 2006
***************
*** 78,87 ****
## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5
# defoptions=
## altoption boot targets option
## multiple altoptions lines are allowed
## e.g. altoptions=(extra menu suffix) extra boot options
! ## altoptions=(recovery mode) single
# altoptions=(recovery mode) single
## controls how many kernels should be put into the menu.lst
--- 78,98 ----
## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5
# defoptions=
+ ## should update-grub lock old automagic boot options
+ ## e.g. lockold=false
+ ## lockold=true
+ # lockold=false
+
+ ## Xen hypervisor options to use with the default Xen boot option
+ # xenhopt=
+
+ ## Xen Linux kernel options to use with the default Xen boot option
+ # xenkopt=console=tty0
+
## altoption boot targets option
## multiple altoptions lines are allowed
## e.g. altoptions=(extra menu suffix) extra boot options
! ## altoptions=(single-user) single
# altoptions=(recovery mode) single
## controls how many kernels should be put into the menu.lst
***************
*** 96,134 ****
## memtest86=false
# memtest86=true
## ## End Default Options ##
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.15-1-686
! root (hd0,5)
! kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-686 root=/dev/hda6 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-1-686
savedefault
boot
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.15-1-686 (recovery mode)
! root (hd0,5)
! kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-686 root=/dev/hda6 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-1-686
savedefault
boot
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.12-1-686
! root (hd0,5)
! kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1-686 root=/dev/hda6 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-1-686
savedefault
boot
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.12-1-686 (recovery mode)
! root (hd0,5)
! kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1-686 root=/dev/hda6 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-1-686
savedefault
boot
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel memtest86
! root (hd0,5)
! kernel /boot/memtest86.bin
boot
### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
--- 107,163 ----
## memtest86=false
# memtest86=true
+ ## should update-grub adjust the value of the default booted system
+ ## can be true or false
+ # updatedefaultentry=false
+
## ## End Default Options ##
+ title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.16-2-686
+ root (hd0,6)
+ kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-2-686 root=/dev/hda7 ro
+ initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.16-2-686
+ savedefault
+ boot
+
+ title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.16-2-686 (recovery mode)
+ root (hd0,6)
+ kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-2-686 root=/dev/hda7 ro single
+ initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.16-2-686
+ savedefault
+ boot
+
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.15-1-686
! root (hd0,6)
! kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-686 root=/dev/hda7 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-1-686
savedefault
boot
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.15-1-686 (recovery mode)
! root (hd0,6)
! kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-686 root=/dev/hda7 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-1-686
savedefault
boot
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.12-1-686
! root (hd0,6)
! kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1-686 root=/dev/hda7 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-1-686
savedefault
boot
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.12-1-686 (recovery mode)
! root (hd0,6)
! kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1-686 root=/dev/hda7 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-1-686
savedefault
boot
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel memtest86
! root (hd0,6)
! kernel /boot/memtest86.bin
boot
### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
================================================================
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.5-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand
grub recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
update-grub has been reimplemented from scratch in the grub2 package. It can't
have this kind of problems now, because it uses a compeltely different approach
at finding the root device (by scanning /dev/).
Please try the grub2 implementation, and if you find other problems report bugs
to that package.
--
Robert Millan
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