Package: os-prober
Version: 1.29
Severity: normal
Though the example is similar, this is a distinct bug from #534644
However to keep things self-contained, I will restate,
I have a second install of Debian Lenny on an other partion. It boots off yet
an other partition.
It's relevant /etc/fstab entries are
/dev/sda2 /boot ext3 defaults,noatime 0 0
/dev/sda6 / auto defaults,noatime 0 0
On my running sid, I have these partitions mounted
/dev/sda2 /mnt/sandbox/boot
/dev/sda6 /mnt/sandbox
The relevant menu entry in /mnt/sandbox/boot/grub/grub.cfg (i.e., residing on
/dev/sda2) is
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.30.012" {
set root=(hd0,2)
search --fs-uuid --set 234cc6d9-e0ef-4105-b817-f1c83edbc1a2
linux /vmlinuz-2.6.30.012 root=/dev/sda5 ro i915.modeset=1 selinux=0
enforcing=0
resume=/dev/sda3 clocksource=hpet quiet
}
With the patch of #534644 applied or not, os-prober reports my image as
residing at
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64
However, because vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64 resides in the root of /dev/sda2, it
should report
/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64 (i.e., mirror the grub.cfg entry above).
The attached patch removes from /usr/lib/linux-boot-probes/mounted/40grub2
lines which cause this behaviour.
The comment in the removed code reads
# Systems with a separate /boot will not have
# theath to the kernel in grub.cfg.
however, as far as I understand, that means that we ought not to return /boot
because
you can't boot from the path /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64.
Addmittedly I may be missing something, but the attached patch gives me the
correct behaviour for my case.
Kevin
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (400, 'stable'), (300,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30.012 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
-- no debconf information
--- 40grub2.old 2008-12-26 05:48:07.000000000 -0800
+++ 40grub2 2009-06-25 17:12:43.680472685 -0700
@@ -56,18 +56,9 @@
kernel="$(echo $2 | sed 's/(.*)//')"
shift 2
parameters="$@"
- # Systems with a separate /boot will not have
- # the path to the kernel in grub.cfg.
- if [ "$partition" != "$bootpart" ]; then
- kernel="/boot$kernel"
- fi
;;
initrd)
initrd="$(echo $2 | sed 's/(.*)//')"
- # Initrd same.
- if [ "$partition" != "$bootpart" ]; then
- initrd="/boot$initrd"
- fi
;;
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