On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 02:19:11 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 22:37:28 +0100, Joe wrote: > >> On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:42:21 +0000 (UTC) >> Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:25:03 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> >>> > On Vi, 14 sep 12, 17:12:38, Hendrik Boom wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Of course, after I've made my copy (with slight changes to >>> >> /etc/fstab) I have two nearly identical sets of partitions, so it >>> >> may be tricky to tell them apart. Is grub2 clever enough to figure >>> >> it all out anyway? And what data does it use to this end? (so I can >>> >> make sure it's right!) >>> > >>> > UUIDs? What failure mode(s) do you have in mind, because I can't >>> > think of any. >>> >>> It probably is os-prober that I mean. The misconfiguration I have in >>> mind is matching one system's /boot with another systems's /. I've >>> had it happen on a laptop sometime ago. and it sure messed up my >>> upgrades. I have no idea how it happened, but it has made me paranoid. >>> >>> >> The problem is that update-grub rewrites /boot/grub/grub.cfg. It may be >> possible to specify roots and boots in /etc/grub.d/ (I do use a >> separate /boot, but I've never needed to try this) or alternatively it >> is perfectly possible to edit grub.cfg, but you need to remember to do >> so each time update-grub is run, before rebooting. More than once, I've >> known versions of grub not deal correctly with a separate /boot, so >> I've had to do this until the bug was fixed. > > It might be that bug that fouled up my laptop. Or I might have done it > myself at some point. Anyway, I've become paranoid about such things. > If the bug has been fixed, well, that'll be one less thing to go wrong > when I upgrade. > > Thanks for telling me that there was a bug, and that it was fixed.
What was the actual bug, by the way -- failure to read /etc/fstab properly, which should make it clear which /boot to use? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k32iur$q76$2...@ger.gmane.org
