Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
/.../
> Lucky you: pinning is usually a very bad idea, and attempts to make it
> work result in broken or, at best, very hard to maintain systems./.../
>
> In general, backporting yourself is the easier path, if backports.org
> doesn't help you out. Just so you know. :)
Thanks for that bit of advice. I take it to heart I assure you.
I spent the better part of a week trying to disentangle unstable
from testing on my home workstation which now runs only testing.
The joys of getting Japanese input working again...
> In the comments in /boot/grub/menu.lst, there will be a line akin to
> this:
>
> # kopt=root=/dev/md1
>
> Ugly as that is, that is where the auto-magic configuration stuff
> happens. There is another line, with 'groot' rather than 'kopt', which
> also influences this.
<Lightbulb flashes> Thank you, saved my bacon. Funny how I had missed those
statements, thinking they were merely comments. Another lesson learnt!
Best wishes,
Gernot Hassenpflug
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