reassign grub
thanks

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Frans Pop wrote:

> retitle 347482 Does not support "!" separator in /dev/mapper names
> severity 347482 important
> thanks
> 
> On Wednesday 11 January 2006 03:44, you wrote:
> > > what were the boot args?
> > > cat /proc/cmdline
> > root=/dev/mapper!Debian-root ro
> >
> > The problem seems to be in the "!". The lvm script expects "/" there.
> > This means the vg is not recognized properly and therefore the modprobe
> > for dm-mod and the vgchange are not executed.
> 
> If I change the "!" to "/" in grub's menu.lst, the system reboots fine.
> I would guess though that the "!" is an accepted delimiter and should be 
> supported.
> 
> Actually, grub has the following options in its menu.lst:
> # kopt=root=/dev/mapper/Debian-root ro
> # kopt_2_6=root=/dev/mapper!Debian-root ro
> 
> It could well be that the same goes for RAID (or anything that 
> uses /dev/mapper)!

the convert linux function in update-grub needs to be fixed
to exclude /dev/mapper/* 

-- 
maks


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