Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing

2019-01-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2019-01-14 20:20:49 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 14/01/2019 à 11:09, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : > > On 2019-01-14 11:06:01 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > On 2019-01-08 20:12:43 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > > This issue is not specific to lilo. It would affect grub-pc updates too

Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing

2019-01-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 14/01/2019 à 11:09, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : On 2019-01-14 11:06:01 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2019-01-08 20:12:43 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: This issue is not specific to lilo. It would affect grub-pc updates too, because the boot device is specified by device id. For example on

Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing

2019-01-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2019-01-14 11:06:01 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2019-01-08 20:12:43 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > This issue is not specific to lilo. It would affect grub-pc updates too, > > because the boot device is specified by device id. > > > > For example on my system : > > $ debconf-show grub

Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing

2019-01-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2019-01-08 20:12:43 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > This issue is not specific to lilo. It would affect grub-pc updates too, > because the boot device is specified by device id. > > For example on my system : > $ debconf-show grub-pc > (...) > * grub-pc/install_devices: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_

Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing

2019-01-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2019-01-06 10:30:26 +, Johan en Katrien Dewaele wrote: > Hi, > > my weekly upgrade on testing failed yesterday as,  after an initrd.img was > generated, lilo could not run successfully. > > > After checking my /etc/lilo.conf, where I had my boot disk identified by ID > as : > > > "boo

Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing

2019-01-08 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 08/01/2019 à 12:51, Johan en Katrien Dewaele a écrit : Only the location of my boot-disk is identified by "ID" in lilo, seems it is not possible to do this by UUID in lilo. I wrote previously in this thread : This is because the UUID is only part of filesystem metadata and cannot be used

Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing

2019-01-08 Thread deloptes
Johan en Katrien Dewaele wrote: > Thinking of switching to grub2 to avoid these problems. > good thinking

Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing

2019-01-07 Thread deloptes
songbird wrote: > first thing i would try is to go back to the previous > known working kernel via dpkg (not apt) and see if that > succeeds in installing and generating an initramfs. don't underestimate udev - AFAIK it is responsible for those names and it fall recently to systemd, so that you c

Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing

2019-01-07 Thread songbird
David Wright wrote: > On Sun 06 Jan 2019 at 10:30:26 (+), Johan en Katrien Dewaele wrote: >> my weekly upgrade on testing failed yesterday as,  after an initrd.img was >> generated, lilo could not run successfully. >> After checking my /etc/lilo.conf, where I had my boot disk identified by ID

Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing

2019-01-07 Thread David Wright
On Sun 06 Jan 2019 at 10:30:26 (+), Johan en Katrien Dewaele wrote: > my weekly upgrade on testing failed yesterday as,  after an initrd.img was > generated, lilo could not run successfully. > After checking my /etc/lilo.conf, where I had my boot disk identified by ID > as : > "boot=/dev/disk

Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing

2019-01-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 06/01/2019 à 14:35, songbird a écrit : i don't mount by ids, i mount by labels, but in looking at the doc for lilo.conf i see that it should also be possible to use UUIDs too. No, UUIDs and LABELs cannot be used to specify a whole partitioned disk as the boot device because they are fil

Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing

2019-01-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 06/01/2019 à 14:35, songbird a écrit : Johan en Katrien Dewaele wrote: my weekly upgrade on testing failed yesterday as,=C2=A0 after an initrd.img= was generated, lilo could not run successfully. i can't help with lilo, haven't used that in ages... This issue is not specific to lilo

Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing

2019-01-06 Thread songbird
Johan en Katrien Dewaele wrote: > Hi, > > my weekly upgrade on testing failed yesterday as,=C2=A0 after an initrd.img= > was generated, lilo could not run successfully. hi, i can't help with lilo, haven't used that in ages... i don't mount by ids, i mount by labels, but in looking at the d