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476531: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476531
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.96+20080228-1
Severity: wishlist
Before grub2, you could set the root device to "LABEL=root" in menu.lst.
This might be necessary if, say, you switch to/from kernels that use
libata for PATA controllers. A kernel with libata would name the first
PATA disk "sda", whereas previous kernels would name it "hda".
It would be great if there was an option to make 10_linux use filesystem
labels instead of the device name.
Thanks,
Michael Spang
-- Package-specific info:
*********************** BEGIN
/dev/sda2 / ext3 rw,noatime,errors=continue,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sda2 /dev/.static/dev ext3 rw,errors=continue,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sda3 /home ext3 rw,noatime,errors=continue,data=writeback 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/sda5 ext3 rw,noatime,errors=continue,data=ordered 0 0
*********************** END
*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0) /dev/sda
*********************** END /boot/grub/device.map
*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/grub.cfg
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/update-grub using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
set default=0
set timeout=5
set root=(hd0,2)
if font (hd0,2)/usr/share/grub/unicode.pff ; then
set gfxmode=640x480
insmod gfxterm
insmod vbe
terminal gfxterm
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_hurd ###
### END /etc/grub.d/10_hurd ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.25-rc3-freyr" {
linux (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25-rc3-freyr root=/dev/sda2 ro
initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.25-rc3-freyr
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.25-rc3-freyr (single-user mode)" {
linux (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25-rc3-freyr root=/dev/sda2 ro single
initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.25-rc3-freyr
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.24-1-686" {
linux (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/sda2 ro
initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.24-1-686 (single-user mode)" {
linux (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/sda2 ro single
initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.18-6-686" {
linux (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-686 root=/dev/sda2 ro
initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-6-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.18-6-686 (single-user mode)" {
linux (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-686 root=/dev/sda2 ro single
initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-6-686
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
linux (hd0,2)/boot/memtest86+.bin
}
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
*********************** END /boot/grub/grub.cfg
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable'), (20, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-rc3-freyr (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.19 Debian configuration management sy
ii grub-common 1.96+20080228-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version
ii libc6 2.7-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii liblzo1 1.08-3 data compression library (old vers
ii libncurses5 5.6+20080203-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
grub-pc recommends no packages.
-- debconf-show failed
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Recent grub2 has support for UUID.
update-grub generates root=UUID=<UUID> paramater for kernels having an initrd.
You're kernel needs one to handle it.
If there is none then update-grub generates root=/dev/device for that kernel
And even the root device for grub (not for your kernel!) is now searched with the UUID
--- End Message ---
