Here's a patch that will make 'update-grub' give a warning if the
currently mounted root partition does not match kopts. Tested and seems to
work. Apply with cd /sbin; patch update-grub update-grub.patch
*** update-grub.old Sun Apr 3 15:14:22 2005
--- update-grub Sun Apr 3 15:27:14 2005
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 06:12:55PM +0200, Leszek Koltunski wrote:
Where did you get this kernel, anyway? That kernel doesn't seem to be
provided by Debian. I'm reassinging to the kernel package until
more is known. Did you create the .deb yourself with `cd $linux; make
deb-pkg`? In that
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reassign 302716 kernel
Bug#302716: dpkg screws up GRUB's menu.lst
Bug reassigned from package `dpkg' to `kernel'.
severity 302716 important
Bug#302716: dpkg screws up GRUB's menu.lst
Severity set to `important'.
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Where did you get this kernel, anyway? That kernel doesn't seem to be
provided by Debian. I'm reassinging to the kernel package until
more is known. Did you create the .deb yourself with `cd $linux; make
deb-pkg`? In that case maybe the upstream kernel people have a
problem. Did you even get
Hi.
Leszek Koltunski wrote:
All other kernels I have installed also get 'root=/dev/hda3' passed.
I dont know if it is a bug in dpkg, grub or it is something I failed to
do whilst moving the root partition. However, as I couldn't find
any info on how to inform dpkg about this change in
Did you consult /boot/grub/menulist?
Following
## ## Start Default Options ##
there should be instructions what to do with
# kopt=...
Uh-oh... Indeed. menu.lst reads
## ## Start Default Options ##
## default kernel options
## default kernel options for automagic boot options
## If you want
Shall I reassign this bug to 'kernel-package'? If so, can you
describe what should be done to fix it? Maybe a comment the
following line is significant?
I can see that when dpkg installs new kernel, it calls 'update-grub'
script to modify menu.lst.
So, possible solutions that come to mind are
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