Bug#613200: linux-base: lilo.conf not updated to UUIDs for kernels not in /
On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 13:19 +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Package: linux-base
> Version: 2.6.32-30
>
> I upgraded my Debian box to squeeze today, and after the initial
> "install new kernel and udev" the system didn't boot because
> linux-base hadn't correctly updated lilo.conf to use UUIDs rather
> than /dev/hd*.
>
> My lilo.conf had a stanza for the kernel like this:
> # Linux kernel options:
> image=/boot/vmlinuz # where to find it...
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img
> label=Linux # name to type to boot it
> alias=l
> root=/dev/hdb2 # Linux partition is D: 2nd partition
> read-only # don't allow writes until it's been checked
>
> ...and linux-base's postinst didn't update the root= parameter.
>
> This appears to be because _lilo_update() decides whether
> to update an image= stanza using this regex:
>
> $in_generic = ($value =~ m|^/vmlinuz(?:.old)?$|);
>
> ...which will only match if you were keeping your kernels
> in /, not if they're in /boot/ as mine are.
This has nothing to do with where the kernel images are (they are always
installed in /boot), but only to do with where the symlinks are created.
The default is to create them in /, but I recall there is an option (now
deprecated) to create them in /boot. I suppose we could check for that
as well.
> Given that once you're running the new kernel lilo will
> fail to handle the stanzas with /dev/hd* in them:
> Fatal: Illegal 'root=' specification: /dev/hdb2
>
> it seems to me that the best approach would be to rewrite
> them in all image= stanzas.
No, this is wrong because custom kernel configurations which do not use
an initramfs cannot interpret UUID specifications.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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