Package: cdrom Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system
I have a server with an onboard Adaptec RAID bus controller (ASR-2010s). After the fresh installation of stable Debian 4.0 distribution my system was rendered unbootable. It got stucked waiting for the root partition. The main problem was that grub menu entries were pointing at /dev/sda1 as the root partition, while the Linux kernel didn't know that name. Booting message issued by "block-osm" reported registration of i2o/hda device, so the root partition was apparentely seen as /dev/i2o/hda1. Manual editing grub entry has helped to mount the root partition, but the system was unable to mount all the other partitions, because all fstab entries created by the installer were also following the "/dev/sda" schema. Renaming them to the "/dev/i2o/hda" schema fixed this problem and my system started to work as expected. But I faced the problem with grub once again few minutes later, after the kernel was upgraded with standard "apt-get dist-upgrade" operation. Soon I have discovered that it was most probably caused by "update-grub" script. Every time it was activated, both entries in /boot/grub/menu.lst file were pointing at root partition /dev/sda1 again. I had to change the line: # kopt=root=/dev/sda1 ro to look like this: # kopt=root=/dev/i2o/hda1 ro This was the right solution. Now my update-grub script does not break root partition name in grub entries anymore. I'm not sure if this is a grub issue or maybe the installer's fault, but I don't know how to check it, so I leave it at the CD level. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686 Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
