Ubuntu
grub package

  1. Bug #21186
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 21186

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jstammi (johannes-stamminger) wrote :

IMHO this bug is more serious than "medium": my server (with ubuntu 6.0.6.1 server installed) now fails booting every time the grub menu is re-generated as the root directive is false. As a server in principle may be located elsewhere ... :-(.

My drives:
IDE:
hda (historical reasons, removal pending)
hdd (historical reasons, removal pending)

SATA:
md0 (sda1, sdb1; RAID1; mounted to /)
md1 (sda4, sdb4; RAID1; mounted to /home
md2 (sda5, sdb5; RAID1; mounted as swap)

grub is installed to the MBR of hda (historical reason; moving to sda+sdb pending).

SATA controler uses libata+sata_promisse modules.

The generated grub menu now insists on directive root=(hd0,0) for booting from md0.
If you forgot to correct after generation and this fails it can be corrected (if sitting in front of the server, else you "won" a journey) by hitting e and "convincing" him to use root=(hd2,0).