Bug#516931: [nicolas.francois@centraliens.net: Bug#516931: Yet anonther reason for the "Waiting for root file system ..." error]
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 08:17:46PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 20.08.2009, 20:05 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan:
> > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 07:51:12PM +0200, Nicolas François wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I tried to send this email to grub@packages.debian.org, but non subscriber
> > > emails are denied on grub Alioth mailing list.
> > > So I'm forwarding it directly to you.
> >
> > Is there any indication that this could be a GRUB issue? All GRUB does is
> > passing the root device via UUID in Linux cmdline.
> >
>
> UUIDs are unfortunately only used with a freshly created menu.lst
> At least the lenny version of grub-legacy's update-grub doestn't create
> at all a menuentry for the /vmlinuz symlink.
> In message #30 Robin said his menu.lst was updated to the lenny kernel.
> So I totally fail to understand why replacing the /vmlinuz symlink with
> the real kernel made his system able to boot.
Ah.. so I take it that once we switch to GRUB 2 this won't be a problem
anymore?
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