[Solved] Problem: kernel-image install -> menu.lst updated with wrong partition info

[<Hassenpflug.Ismail@mb3.seikyou.ne.jp>]

Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> wrote:

> <Hassenpflug.Ismail@mb3.seikyou.ne.jp> writes:
 
/.../

> Lucky you: pinning is usually a very bad idea, and attempts to make it
> work result in broken or, at best, very hard to maintain systems./.../
> 
> In general, backporting yourself is the easier path, if backports.org
> doesn't help you out.  Just so you know. :) 
 
Thanks for that bit of advice. I take it to heart I assure you.
I spent the better part of a week trying to disentangle unstable 
from testing on my home workstation which now runs only testing. 
The joys of getting Japanese input working again...

> In the comments in /boot/grub/menu.lst, there will be a line akin to
> this:
> 
> # kopt=root=/dev/md1
> 
> Ugly as that is, that is where the auto-magic configuration stuff
> happens.  There is another line, with 'groot' rather than 'kopt', which
> also influences this.

<Lightbulb flashes> Thank you, saved my bacon. Funny how I had missed those
statements, thinking they were merely comments. Another lesson learnt!

Best wishes,
        Gernot Hassenpflug