Bug#535239: grub-pc: Multiple kernel root= paramaters

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Montag, den 28.09.2009, 01:11 +1000 schrieb Andrew Vaughan:
> Hi
> 
> Time for another variation on this bug.
> 
> I was asked the debconf dialog about kopt, however the extracted value
> was empty.
> I copied and pasted "root=/dev/hda5 ro" into the dialog.  Next came
> the defoptions question.
> Old value was 
> # defoptions=
> The debconf dialog supplied (defaulted to ?) "quiet" which I accepted.
> 
> During reboot I checked the commandline and noticed
> linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-1-686
> root=UUID=24ed1821-c6b9-433b-9e03-b794a442e389 ro root=/dev/hda5 ro
> quiet
> 
> Given that grub-pc generated the root=UUID=24e... param perhaps it did
> extract the kopt 
> root=/dev/hda5 param successfully, but discarded it knowing it was
> going to add a root=
> param anyway.
> 
> The kernel booted ok, so duplicate root params aren't necessarily a
> problem.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Andrew V. 

root= and ro option are excluded from the migration.
Mostly menu.lst still uses real devices for the root= parameter but
UUIDs are now the preferred way, except for LVM devices.

I think we should add it to the debconf template to make that clear. But
then we need another round of translations *sigh*

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Felix Zielcke
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