On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:44:57PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 22:29 +0000, Jurij Smakov wrote: > [...] > > Trying to install it again succeeds, I guess because it skips some > > already-asked debconf question, as it does not try to modify > > /etc/silo.conf the second time. The new silo.conf looks like this: > > > > # root = /dev/sdb2 > > root = UUID=c6cd1add-df06-4bea-a511-76a0802d74b0 > [...] > > which, quite predictably, is not understood by silo: > > > > ju...@debian:~/linux$ sudo silo -f > > Config file error: Syntax error near line 2 in file /etc/silo.conf > > Error parsing silo config file /etc/silo.conf > > > > I glanced through the SILO code and have not find any evidence that > > it supports device identification by UUID. Do you have any reason to > > believe that it should work, because I fail to see one. > > LILO/SILO/etc. don't interpret the root - this string is passed to the > kernel and then to the initramfs. However, because it has an '=' in it, > I think it needs to be quoted. Can you test that this works with > double-quotes around the UUID= string?
Hmm, whaddaya know, with quotes it works :-). I've also checked what Ubuntu has been doing, and they switched to UUID by replacing /dev/sdXN by /dev/disk/by-uuid/<uuid>. The package available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/silo/1.4.13a+git20070930-1ubuntu1 contains the postinst script which accomplishes that. Best regards, -- Jurij Smakov ju...@wooyd.org Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100216230819.ga3...@droopy.oc.cox.net
