Re: Should I report a failure to boot?

["Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>]

Michael Burschik wrote:
> Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> > Michael Burschik wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks for your offer, but I think my problem is different. The grub
> > > configuration is correct,
> >
> > If it mentions "root=/dev/hdbX" or "root=/dev/hdfX", it is incorrect.
>
> Thanks for your reply. If this is deprecated, then it is a 
> grub/update-grub bug, since I did not put these entries there myself.

The installer put them there in the first place.

> However, how am I supposed to know that hdb or hdf are not disk names 
> that have been fixed by udev?

Choose any of the following answers:

1) You are supposed to be subscribed to linux-hotplug-devel and follow 
the development.
2) You are supposed to know this from manuals, as you do with any other 
tech news - but no such manuals exist now.
3) You are not supposed to know this, the installer should do the right 
thing.

> Yes, but this does not really explain why my cdrom is always hda and 
> my hard disk, which is on the same controller, is sometimes hdb and 
> sometimes hdf.

Hm. I think that, for debugging, you should do this as root:

cp -r /sys /tmp/sys 2>/dev/null
tar -C /tmp -zcf sys.tar.gz sys

and mail two sys.tar.gz files (one with hdb and one with hdf) to the bug 
(and to me personally, since I am also interested, but I do not work for 
Debian).

For now, you have to edit menu.lst manually so that it mentions stable 
names. Only after that, update-grub will do the right thing.

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Alexander E. Patrakov