On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 02:38:53PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 04:47:21PM +0200, Michel van der Klei wrote: > > Package: grub > > Version: 0.95+cvs20040624-17 > > Severity: grave > > > After a kernel upgrade last night my system fails to boot. > > It was caused by a wrongly updated menu.lst which pointed to > > a wrong kernel location: > > > It pointed to: > > /vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-686 root=/dev/hda5 ro vga=791 > > > and that should be: > > > /vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-686 root=/dev/sda5 ro vga=791 > > > FYI this is a sata machine > > Which presumably means that you were upgrading from a kernel in which > SATA showed up as IDE, to one in which SATA shows up as SCSI. I don't > think grub can be expected to fix this for you automatically.
Nope Steve, i came from a 2.6 kernel with sata support. There was no need to make any changes in my /etc/fstab aswell. Grub was setup correctly and worked fine until the upgrade. I've saw this problem before but in that case i came from a 2.4 kernel and sata showed up as IDE, so that was explainable. For me this is not such a big problem since i know what to do .... but some kind of a newbie will have some big trouble with this. > The most that grub does is populate the entry automatically with the > contents of the "kopt" variable in menu.lst: > > ## default kernel options > ## default kernel options for automagic boot options > ## If you want special options for specifiv 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=root=/dev/hda5 ro vga=791 > > If you want new kernel entries to automatically be given /dev/sda5 for > their root fs, you should edit that last line. Hmm kind of strange, my menu.lst contains: #kopt=root=/dev/sda5 ro vga=791 The grave severity is maybe slightly overdone, excuse for that one. Regards, Michel van der Klei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
