Your message dated Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:47:05 +0000
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and subject line Bug#463274: fixed in grub 0.97-33
has caused the Debian Bug report #463274,
regarding update-grub take NO into account "ignore" fstype in 3rd column of
fstab!
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: grub
Version: 0.97-27
Severity: important
*** Please type your report below this line ***
update-grub, while parsing /etc/fstab as I guess, does not take into account
value of 3rd column that may be "ignore" and in such case the entry should
be
ignored by grub like commented out are. In my case:
$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda6 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda1 /boot ignore defaults,ro 0 1
/dev/sda5 none swap sw 0 0
etc...
This is former state of my fstab.
On each linux image auto-update (really there were just 2.6.18-4 -5 & -6
numbers, but don't-know-why kernel was updated by APT at least twice more
times during last half of year, and each time update-grub broke system
booting) update-grub rewrote menu.lst and replaced /boot/vmlinuz* with
/vmlinuz* and same for initrd-*s, so as, I guess, grub had found entry for
/boot in fstab and thank that /boot directory is on separate partition.
When I added comment sharp # before this "ignore" entry, bug has gone.
I think this bug is close to that one:
"Debian Bug report logs - #435708 update-grub fails to recognize mount
points in /etc/fstab if the entry contains a trailing slash"
This bug also makes grub to generate wrong # groot "automagical"
property on creating new menu.lst (if there was no any) - update-grub
produced # groot=(hd0,0) in my case instead of (0,5).
Other menu.lst parsing/updating errors are:
update-grub uncomment some "automagical" options, like
## altoptions=(single-user mode) single
becomes
# altoptions=(single-user mode) single
and "single" copies of auto-kernel-list entries are generated.
## memtest86=true
also becomes uncommented
# memtest86=true
but nothing more happens, as I saw.
In menu entries:
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-6-486
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-486 root=/dev/sda6 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-6-486
#savedefault
savedefault becomes uncommented.
So as grub is about to be replaced with grub2 (?), I think
these "bits" are to be ignored, but bugs with /etc/fstab
are serious, as do system unexpectedly unbootable.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-486
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal
hand
grub recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: grub
Source-Version: 0.97-33
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
grub, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
grub-disk_0.97-33_all.deb
to pool/main/g/grub/grub-disk_0.97-33_all.deb
grub-doc_0.97-33_all.deb
to pool/main/g/grub/grub-doc_0.97-33_all.deb
grub-legacy-doc_0.97-33_all.deb
to pool/main/g/grub/grub-legacy-doc_0.97-33_all.deb
grub_0.97-33.diff.gz
to pool/main/g/grub/grub_0.97-33.diff.gz
grub_0.97-33.dsc
to pool/main/g/grub/grub_0.97-33.dsc
grub_0.97-33_amd64.deb
to pool/main/g/grub/grub_0.97-33_amd64.deb
multiboot-doc_0.97-33_all.deb
to pool/main/g/grub/multiboot-doc_0.97-33_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated grub package)
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Format: 1.7
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:31:41 +0100
Source: grub
Binary: grub grub-disk grub-doc grub-legacy-doc multiboot-doc
Architecture: source amd64 all
Version: 0.97-33
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Grub Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Changed-By: Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
grub - GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy version)
grub-disk - GRUB bootable disk image (dummy package)
grub-doc - Documentation for GRand Unified Bootloader (dummy package)
grub-legacy-doc - Documentation for GRUB Legacy
multiboot-doc - The Multiboot specification
Closes: 284790 301373 435708 441080 443897 463274
Changes:
grub (0.97-33) experimental; urgency=low
.
* control (grub): Suggest multiboot-doc.
* update-grub: Rewrite find_device() and convert() using grub-probe from
grub-common package. (Closes: #435708, #443897, #463274, #301373, #284790)
* patches/use_grub-probe_in_grub-install.diff: Do the same for grub-install.
(Closes: #441080)
Files:
e972acf9a82556e330e5b2af8a273f59 941 admin optional grub_0.97-33.dsc
7f782c16b16cfdf1a3c05289ea2263cc 75893 admin optional grub_0.97-33.diff.gz
2c153dda271232b1a15805afbad67ba1 885066 admin optional grub_0.97-33_amd64.deb
45520660d2af5f4cf606ddb51d3e7f77 112898 admin optional
grub-disk_0.97-33_all.deb
3c3ff3830565826a39326734866d1171 112912 doc optional grub-doc_0.97-33_all.deb
460ccc69a4c22629ea186b31a07b96e9 233964 doc optional
grub-legacy-doc_0.97-33_all.deb
e0ff8ef8e95aee4698dbecd6cfe5e4ef 158054 doc optional
multiboot-doc_0.97-33_all.deb
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