Bug#243011: os-prober: installation report (beauty, but some issues)

[Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl>]

On Saturday 10 April 2004 20:25, Joey Hess wrote:
> Frans Pop wrote:
> > Booting Woody fails with the following message.
> >   Booting 'Debian GNU/Linux (3.0) (on /dev/hda5)'
> >   root (hd0,0)
> >     filesystem is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> >   kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5
> >
> >   Error 15: file not found
> >
> > I think it fails because it looks for /boot/vmlinuz on /dev/hda5 while it
> > is on my boot partition, which is /dev/hda1.
>
> It told grub the right boot partition (hd0,0), but then gage it a path
> to the kernel that is not relative to that partition (/boot/vmlinuz
> instead of /vmlinuz). Fixed.

Hmmm. I think you fixed to much :-(

On my retest I find that now my unstable partition /dev/hdb8 does not boot
anymore with a similar message. In that case the kernel and initrd _are_ in
a /boot subdirectury on the root filesystem, but in the current menu.lst
(attached in my mail earlier today) there is no /boot prefix for both.

To recap:
- my Woody installation on /dev/hda5 has it's own boot partition on /dev/hda1;
- for my unstable (/dev/hdb8) and testing (/dev/hdb9) partitions the /boot
  subdirectory is a part of the respective root partitions.

Hope this helps.