Package: linux-image Version: 2.6.?? i386 and amd64 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
I have 2 systems with SCSI system disks and SATA misc disks (P4 and AMD64). At install, I put / on the SCSI and the grub MBR on (hd0) (set to the SCSI in the BIOS). The installer wrote /boot/grub/menu.lst with the root as (hd0,0) and the root partition as sda3. When it comes time, during the boot process, to mount the root partition, sda has become a SATA drive. The boot kernel says sda3 doesn't exist, and drops to a shell (or when the SCSI has only one partition, the boot kernel panics). A workaround is to edit menu.lst and fstab. But if the SATA fails, the system doesn't boot. <IMHO> A SATA drive isn't SCSI, so it shouldn't be labeled as such. If it has to be for some reason, the real SCSI drive(s) should come first in /dev. Or maybe just (hd0) should. Or maybe they could be sdA... Or maybe they could be named working down from the end of the alphabet. Whatever. But something's killing a system with a mixture of SCSI and SATA drives. </IMHO> -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
