After kernel update, system cannot boot because menu.lst hacked badly.
Bug #53519 reported by
lp-void
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #21412: Default update-grub behaviour is not intuitive with respect to user modifications.
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| grub (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
For bizarre reasons my notebook has the hard drive as the secondary master and the CD-ROM drive as the primary master. This means that my CD-ROM drive is hda and my hard drive is hdc. Upon updating the kernel from a security patch, menu.lst got overwritten with an assumption that my boot drive was /dev/hda. All references to /dev/hdc2 (the root partition) were studiously rewritten to /dev/hda2. This is a bit bizarre in that it seemed to be careful to keep my partitions correct (it kept the "2"), but changed the drive around for no observably good reason from c to a.
This happened on the most recent set of updates for Dapper 6.06LTS.
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