forcemerge 564928 554790 thanks Am Freitag, den 15.01.2010, 10:56 +0100 schrieb Vincent Fourmond: > severity 564928 important > thanks > > Hello, [...] > > OK, I understand the problem. I had changed the device (from IDE to > SATA using an adapter). Is there any way to detect that at postinst ? > Could somehow grub find out that a drive has changed its interface ? > (it can happen also if you change the SATA or IDE port, I believe, not > only in the tight corner case of changing the whole interface !). > > I've downgraded the severity to important, since it only happens in > very special cases. However, when that happens, it is guaranteed to be > a real pain... (especially since I only had old Knoppix versions that > would not recognize my SATA driver or my network card... Rather > delicate, I'd say). > > Thanks for the reply, > > Vincent
Solution is to use /dev/disk/by-id. Then udev handles it for us. Good that Colin submitted now a patch for this, just hadn't yet time to look at it in detail. > PS: upon submission of the bug, I got a message saying that I didn't > have posting right the the pkg-grub mailing list. This should be > disabled, as bug reports definitely should arrive there, even from > unsubscribed addresses. Strange, because debbugs should be whitelisted and if the list didn't get your report I wouldn't have seen it. Anyway already reported as #563763 and also as #564536 against tech-ctte. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org