Bug#463391: update-grub: wrong root device

Robert Millan rmh at aybabtu.com
Sun Feb 3 22:18:45 UTC 2008


On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 08:15:28PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> > 
> > Unfortunately when you have multiple disks of different types, like you do,
> > there's no perfect way to figure out what number will the bios assign to
> > each one.  It'll be possible to improve this in the future (by not using
> > the bios), but this will take time.
> > 
> > The solution for these situations is to edit device.map.
> 
> Uhm actually, it seems there *is* a bug.  More details in this thread:
> 
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-02/msg00063.html
> 
> and specially Okuji's reply:
> 
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-02/msg00084.html

It seems that latest CVS got some fixes for this problem.  Please, can you
test?

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Robert Millan

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