Hi,

I have been happily running Squeeze from a USB stick on my QNAP TS-109 Pro
II for a long time. Today, I decided to update my system with 'apt-get
upgrade'. Some packages were updated but I saw that some files were "kept
back" by apt-get - so I decided to run 'apt-get dist-upgrade' without
knowing any better.

This is when problems started. Would anyone be able to help?

Apparently the update changed the mgmt of hard disks to some UUID-based
plot that I am not familiar with. For example, my /etc/fstab was changed as
follows:

kaappikone# less /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/sda2       /               ext3    errors=remount-ro,noatime 0
1
UUID=59c82707-e5bd-4538-a2ad-b697635e9313       /               ext3
errors=remount-ro,noatime 0       1
# /dev/sda1       /boot           ext2    defaults        0       2
UUID=42cacc9b-4dfd-4cd9-85dc-8810a82af109       /boot           ext2
defaults        0       2
# /dev/sda5       none            swap    sw              0       0
UUID=0f4c0b92-afd9-45de-b9b1-40b93d458ffa       none            swap
sw              0       0
# /dev/sdb2       /bigdisk      ext3    noatime         0       1
UUID=af48689a-1f86-4a8b-ab86-be90915b37d9       /bigdisk        ext3
noatime         0       1

The bit that worries me is that the upgrade program gave me the following
warning:

 │ Boot loader configuration check
needed                                    │
 │
│
 │ The boot loader configuration for this system was not recognized.
These   │
 │ settings in the configuration may need to be
updated:                     │
 │
│
 │  * The root device ID passed as a kernel
parameter;                       │
 │  * The boot device ID used to install and update the boot
loader.         │
 │
│
 │
│
 │ You should generally identify these devices by UUID or label.
However,    │
 │ on MIPS systems the root device must be identified by name.

Would anyone be able to help me how to do that? Or, more generally, how to
ensure that my QNAP box will be able to boot again?

I have not yet rebooted since the update. I am able to login with SSH but
for some reason smb crashes as soon as I try to connect to it. This did not
happen before the update.

Thanks!

Juha

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