Public bug reported:
Over Sun 4th - Wed 7th I upgraded from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04. I chose
the option "use the package-provider's menu.lst". It created a menu.lst
that could not boot. The problem was that it consistently used invalid
syntax for each "root" stanza, e.g.:
title Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-36-generic-pae
root /dev/sda6
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-36-generic-pae root=/dev/sda6 quiet
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-36-generic-pae
quiet
By editing the grub commandline from inside grub, to provide instead
root (hd0,5)
the system booted.
Later, when I edited menu.lst to correct the problem permanently, I
found that every root line for each kernel used the Linux device name
instead of the grub device syntax.
Sorry, I can't easily provide details (lsb_release -rd and update-manager
versions) on the 9.10 system as I'm not running it anymore.
(If it's important to know, let me know, and I'll see if I can boot it up - I
saved a copy of / onto another partition before doing the system upgrade.)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.134.11.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-36.79-generic-pae 2.6.32.46+drm33.20
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-36-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Dec 11 17:36:01 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
LC_COLLATE=C
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid
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