Package: grub-pc Version: 1.95+20070507-1 Severity: normal -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
While debugging #423022 I found the following: > I had to do one more thing to boot up correctly: edit the command line. > It had 'root=md0' but it needed 'root=/dev/md0'. It appears that > 'grub-probe -t device /boot/grub' outputs 'md0' when it should be > outputting '/dev/md0' (just as it outputs e.g., '/dev/hde1' instead of > 'hde1' for 'grub-probe -t device /mnt'). Shall I file a separate bug for > that? This is caused by the code within the #ifdef __linux__ in 'util/i386/pc/getroot.c'. I can't see what the point of this code is--the kernel will always want 'root=/dev/md0' or 'root=/dev/mapper/foo-bar' and not the truncated form. (In fact /dev/foo/bar is better than /dev/mapper/foo-bar... the former is the proper LVM device interface, the latter is just an implementation detail (LVM did not always used to use device-mapper). However loads of other tools use /dev/mapper/foo-bar directly so this is just a minor aesthetic problem). - -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (530, 'testing'), (520, 'unstable'), (510, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages grub-pc depends on: ii libc6 2.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii liblzo1 1.08-3 data compression library (old vers grub-pc recommends no packages. - -- no debconf information -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGR0nDshl/216gEHgRAnDxAKDbE6VD58CAO5cMjSi0NYN01vLlHQCfY10q AWb2AWWHDhQfuNg/VxYg2yw= =ecRA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
