Bug#586380: update-grub generates root=/dev/hda1

[Colin Watson]

reassign 583271 grub-common
reassign 586380 grub-common
forcemerge 583271 585177 586380
thanks

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 01:37:51AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> Package: grub-pc
> Version: 1.98+20100614-2
> Severity: serious
> 
> I had to boot from a rescue CD with an older kernel and chrooted
> into my /, which is /dev/hda1 for that kernel.  I ran update-grub
> and isntall-grub.
> 
> I then rebooted and it passed "root=/dev/hda1" to the kernel.  But
> the new kernel calls this /dev/sda1.  So it failed to boot.
> Fixing this manually allowed me to boot.

This is basically the same as #583271 and #585177.  Merging - I do
intend to fix this for squeeze one way or another, although it will
probably involve a grotty packaging-level hack of some kind.

> Something also seems to be generating a /boot/grub/menu.lst
> yesterday, not sure why since I don't grub1 instaled anymore.
> And that's full of entried with root=/dev/hda1, which won't work
> of course.
> 
> ls shows:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9228 2010-06-17 23:49:07.000000000 +0200 /boot/grub/menu.lst

This is really more to do with your previous bug, but this does rather
suggest that you originally upgraded from GRUB Legacy and have run
grub-install at some point since then rather than running
upgrade-from-grub-legacy, which would put you squarely in the middle of
#586143.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]