gutsy installer finds older gutsy media on hdd

[Michael Brown]

Binary package hint: casper

What works:
  Copy the Gutsy install CDROM content to the HDD and boot to HDD to do install. Works ok.

What is broken:
  If you boot to a (in this case newer daily build) Gutsy install CD, it finds and mounts the HDD image (older).

Suggested fixes:
  1) change search order so that it finds the cdrom media first

  2) embed a serial # both in the initrd and in the media. Have the installer initrd check the serial numbers before it assumes the content is correct (better than #1)

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

casper (1.108) gutsy; urgency=low

  * If CASPER_GENERATE_UUID is set, generate a random UUID in the initramfs,
    and check it against the discovered medium (unless booting with the
    ignore_uuid parameter). This allows live CD images to be safely copied
    to the hard disk without causing problems when booting future live CDs
    (LP: #144800).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:23:37 +0100

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

livecd-rootfs (0.40) gutsy; urgency=low

  * Set CASPER_GENERATE_UUID=1 to tell casper's initramfs hook to generate a
    UUID which will be checked against the discovered medium (LP: #144800).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:26:06 +0100

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

revno: 1253
committer: Colin Watson <email address hidden>
branch nick: debian-cd
timestamp: Thu 2007-10-04 14:21:02 +0100
message:
  if casper left a UUID in the initramfs, copy it to .disk (LP: #144800)

[Jose De la Rosa (jose-de-la-rosa)]

Changing status per Colin's comments on 10/3

[Timothy R. Chavez (timrchavez)]

The bug task for the somerville project has been removed by an automated script. This bug has been cloned on that project and is available here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1306191