Bug#374611: Upgrades from Linux 2.4 might break boot when hda becomes sda
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 11:46:36AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 June 2006 10:55, Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote:
> > Upgrading from kernel-image-2.4.27-3-686 to linux-image-2.6.15-1-686
> > might break boot if /dev/hdb becomes /dev/sda. As fstab and menu.lst
> > aren't changed, boot will hang when trying to mount root fs.
> >
> > Is there any way in which initrd could handle this? Or at least
> > gracefuly report that the root param is wrong (currently it just hangs
> > on "Waiting for root device").
>
> Don't know if that is possible, but the issue is at least already
> documented in the Release Notes.
Uhm I see. Note that this isn't necessarily related with release upgrades,
though. One could want to switch from 2.4 to 2.6 either in sarge or etch
(although we probably aren't going to bother about sarge atm).
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