Bug#296748: grub fails to translate lilo.conf if /boot is a separate partition

[Sebastien Blondeel]

Package: grub
Version: 0.95+cvs200406
Severity: important

I have a Debian stable on /dev/hda
I installed a Debian testing on /dev/hdb
I agreed for GRUB to take charge and translate automatically the LILO
configuration

I got the following message:

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Booting 'Linux (on /dev/hda5)'
root (hd0,4)
 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
 kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4 ro

Error 15: File not found

Press any key to continue...
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when I selected the following entry:

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# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing
# linux installation on /dev/hda5.
title           Linux (on /dev/hda5)
root            (hd0,4)
kernel          /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 ro
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.4.18-k7
savedefault
boot
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I corrected it as follows to make it work:

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# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing
# linux installation on /dev/hda5. + corrected by SBI
title           Linux (on /dev/hda5)
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /vmlinuz-2.4.18-k7 root=/dev/hda5 ro 
initrd          /initrd.img-2.4.18-k7
savedefault
boot
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These are the relevant lines in the /etc/fstab file of my /dev/hda
Debian:

# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>                       <dump>  <pass>
/dev/hda5       /               ext2    defaults,errors=remount-ro      0       1
/dev/hda1       /boot           ext2    rw                              0       2

This was especially annoying as the newly installed Debian testing was not fully functional...

I can send you my /dev/hda /etc/lilo.conf file if you need it.