The computer has many linux partition. It has one main Linux (ubuntu 6.06)
partition which is the ONLY ONE having grub installed. Feisty was installed in
a separate parition. During feisty installation, grub installation was skipped
BUT the dialog box indicated to boot feisty from /dev/sdb7. I added the
following grub entry which worked fine (note it's 2.6.20-12);
Grub Parameters for that kernel;
title Ubuntu 7.04 Hdb7, kernel 2.6.20-12
root (hd1,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-12-generic root=/dev/sdb7 ro vga=0x31A
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-12-generic
boot
I always used /dev/hdb7 in previous linux installed I found strange to
use /dev/sdb7 but someone indicated that feisty was using /dev/sdbNN
because of the new libpata... Feisty was running fine with the grub
entry above. Trying to use root=/dev/hdb7 with feisty kernel 2.6.20-12
was not working.
Then during one feisty update, kernel 2.6.20-13 was installed. Feisty
kernel upgrade couldn't update the grub entry above since it's in
another linux partition. I had to manually update the grub entry above
entry by changing 2.6.20-12 by 2.6.20-13 and leaving root=/dev/sdb7.
When booting this new 2.6.20-13, the kernel hang at "Uniform CD-ROM
drive Revision: 3.20" and I raised the problem in launchpad.
After some more experientation with Linux Kernel SysRequest debuggin
feature. I have been able to see the message like "couldn't find
/dev/sdb7". I then tried to update the grub entry to pass
root=/dev/hdb7. Since then the kernel 2.6.20-13 is working as expected.
I do not know if the other people on IRC who indicated that they had the
problem, where kernel stop at CD-ROM line, were also using
root=/dev/sdbNN instead of root=/dev/hdbNN in their grub menu.lst. Is
this something that has changed between kernel 2.6.20-12 and 2.6.20-13?
P.S> I would have liked in first place that during feisty install, when
skipping the grub installation, the ubuntu installation should write a
sample grub menul.lst file in /root updated for the system being
installed.
thanks
Is there any information that could be usefull for you?
--
grub: feisty linux-image 2.6.20-13, wrong root device in menu.lst
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/100005
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu.
--
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
