Re: disk labels mismatch

[pavicic <pavicic@grad.hr>]

Hi!

This problem has been solved but since some points 
might be of general interest even to Debian developers 
here is a report on the issue. 

To summarize: There are 3 disks on the machine
sda, sdb, sdc. Debian Sid is installed on sda. 
sdb is _not_ mounted but contained an older 
installation of Debian Squeeze.

The problem was that grub "saw" that old installation 
on sdb although sdb was _not_ mounted. For example, 
I deleted grub.cfg and updated grub and all old 
installations from sdb would reapear. Equally so 
during booting. 

At the beginning I thought that was the problem of 
the MBR at sdb but Bob Proulx and Igor Cicimov helped 
in excluding that option. Then I reformated sdb and, 
of course, the installations were no more. 

I would say that this is something that should be 
changed. Grub simply should not read unmounted disks.  

Best, 

Mladen.