Bug#302359: /sbin/update-grub: update-grub and/or installer generate wrong menue.lst - system becomes unbootable

[Filippo Giunchedi]

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On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 02:58:33PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Package: grub
> Version: 0.95+cvs20040624-17
> Followup-For: Bug #302359
>=20
> I upgraded a woody system with hardware raid:
> 0000:02:0b.1 RAID bus controller: Mylex Corporation AcceleRAID
> 352/170/160 support Device (rev 02)
>=20
> The upgrade itself went fine, but when I tried to reboot into the new
> kernel, I found that lilo still showed the old boot menu, providing just
> the old kernels. I installed grub.

this can be an unrelated issue to this bug and must be treated separately

>=20
> After this the system became unbootable: apparently grub had messed up
> the boot record and put something like
>=20
> kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-386 root=3D/dev/hdaX ro
>=20
> in the menue.lst

I don't know if it is possible to guess the current root device used for bo=
oting
(that would be useful though) and grub's guess is indeed wrong.

>=20
> Unfortunately, I didn't remember the exact term for my raid; as the syste=
m became unbootable, the only solution was to reinstall from scratch.=20

have you tried to boot from a sarge's cd for example with the correct root=
=3D
option?
did you also had a look at sarge's release notes, especially
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.ht=
ml#s-newkernel

thanks for your report,
filippo

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