On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 02:58:33PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Package: grub > Version: 0.95+cvs20040624-17 > Followup-For: Bug #302359 > > I upgraded a woody system with hardware raid: > 0000:02:0b.1 RAID bus controller: Mylex Corporation AcceleRAID > 352/170/160 support Device (rev 02) > > The upgrade itself went fine, but when I tried to reboot into the new > kernel, I found that lilo still showed the old boot menu, providing just > the old kernels. I installed grub. this can be an unrelated issue to this bug and must be treated separately > > After this the system became unbootable: apparently grub had messed up > the boot record and put something like > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-386 root=/dev/hdaX ro > > in the menue.lst I don't know if it is possible to guess the current root device used for booting (that would be useful though) and grub's guess is indeed wrong. > > Unfortunately, I didn't remember the exact term for my raid; as the system became unbootable, the only solution was to reinstall from scratch. have you tried to boot from a sarge's cd for example with the correct root= option? did you also had a look at sarge's release notes, especially http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#s-newkernel thanks for your report, filippo
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