Bug#564928: the mbr needs updating

[Felix Zielcke]

forcemerge 564928 554790
thanks
Am Freitag, den 15.01.2010, 10:56 +0100 schrieb Vincent Fourmond:
> severity 564928 important
> thanks
> 
>   Hello,
[...]
> 
>   OK, I understand the problem. I had changed the device (from IDE to
> SATA using an adapter). Is there any way to detect that at postinst ?
> Could somehow grub find out that a drive has changed its interface ?
> (it can happen also if you change the SATA or IDE port, I believe, not
> only in the tight corner case of changing the whole interface !).
> 
>   I've downgraded the severity to important, since it only happens in
> very special cases. However, when that happens, it is guaranteed to be
> a real pain... (especially since I only had old Knoppix versions that
> would not recognize my SATA driver or my network card... Rather
> delicate, I'd say).
> 
>   Thanks for the reply,
> 
>       Vincent

Solution is to use /dev/disk/by-id. Then udev handles it for us. Good
that Colin submitted now a patch for this, just hadn't yet time to look
at it in detail.

> PS: upon submission of the bug, I got a message saying that I didn't
> have posting right the the pkg-grub mailing list. This should be
> disabled, as bug reports definitely should arrive there, even from
> unsubscribed addresses.

Strange, because debbugs should be whitelisted and if the list didn't
get your report I wouldn't have seen it.
Anyway already reported as #563763 and also as #564536 against
tech-ctte.

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Felix Zielcke
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