Am Montag, den 28.09.2009, 01:11 +1000 schrieb Andrew Vaughan: > Hi > > Time for another variation on this bug. > > I was asked the debconf dialog about kopt, however the extracted value > was empty. > I copied and pasted "root=/dev/hda5 ro" into the dialog. Next came > the defoptions question. > Old value was > # defoptions= > The debconf dialog supplied (defaulted to ?) "quiet" which I accepted. > > During reboot I checked the commandline and noticed > linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-1-686 > root=UUID=24ed1821-c6b9-433b-9e03-b794a442e389 ro root=/dev/hda5 ro > quiet > > Given that grub-pc generated the root=UUID=24e... param perhaps it did > extract the kopt > root=/dev/hda5 param successfully, but discarded it knowing it was > going to add a root= > param anyway. > > The kernel booted ok, so duplicate root params aren't necessarily a > problem. > > HTH > > Andrew V.
root= and ro option are excluded from the migration. Mostly menu.lst still uses real devices for the root= parameter but UUIDs are now the preferred way, except for LVM devices. I think we should add it to the debconf template to make that clear. But then we need another round of translations *sigh* -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
