Ubuntu
grub package

wrong root disk in grub/menu.lst

Bug #109813 reported by lo
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: grub

I have done a dist-upgrade from edgy to feisty. After rebooting booting the kernel failed because the root disk was wrong.
The new entries in the menu.lst are:

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-15-generic
root (hd2,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic root=UUID=c9e57cf6-7150-4d91-91e
5-634100313597 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic
quiet

and so on

root (hd2,6) is wrong it has to be (hd0,6). After changing this manually every thing workes fine. All entries for old kernel images are changed too. The entry for Windows has not been changed.

Some components of my system:
Asus P5B So-775 Intel-P965
Samsung SP2504C 250GB SATA-II
Samsung SH-W163A SATA

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Richard Birnie (rbirnie-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

lo,

thanks for reporting this bug. To try and establish what happened it would help if you could attach the log files from the upgrade. These can be found in /var/log/dist-upgrade. There should be three files, if you can attach all of them that would be good.

thanks,
Richard

Changed in grub:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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lo (lennart-lennart-oymanns) wrote :

hi,

sorry I can't attach them because in /var/log/dist-upgrade are no files. I have used "apt-get clean" to remove the downloaded packages. Maybe the files have been deleted by apt-get.

Lennart

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Richard Birnie (rbirnie-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Lennart,

OK. Which upgrade method did you use? Was it following the instructions from here http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading , or did you upgrade manually with something like:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

If you did the latter then that would explain why there are no logs in /var/log/dist-upgrade. If you followed the instructions at the above link then something is wrong because update-manager should create logs.

thanks for your input,
Richard

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lo (lennart-lennart-oymanns) wrote :

I used:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Lennart

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