[64studio-devel] grub has wrong root-partition in menu-list after installing

[Free Ekanayaka]

Hi Pete,

thanks for the report,

|--==> pete  writes:

  p> Hi,
  p> I reported this problem already with the subject "problems installing 64studio 
  p> 1.3 - addressing hda devices as sda" on Mai 18th without any answer from the 
  p> list. Since I'm not an 64studio developer I didn't report this as an bug yet. 
  p> Maybe someone else can do that. Now I tried to install the 1.4 Version and 
  p> got the same behaviour. I think this is an very critical bug since it's very 
  p> hard for normal users to get solved the problem because the boot process 
  p> simply hangs at "waiting for root file system".

  p> While installing the 1.4 (i86) on a thinkpad after finishing installation 
  p> prozess grub was installed with an entry in the menu.lst where the 
  p> root-partition was named as hda. I had to change the hda in the menu.lst to 
  p> sda to boot in the newly installed system. This problem exist allready with 
  p> 1.3 and is reproducable on other i386 systems with an ide-controller and 
  p> ide-disks. 

We already experienced that bug when upgrading from kernel 2.6.17 to
2.6.19, it's known issue, but I thought to have fixed it since release
1.3.0.

Please would paste here the output of:

lspci

and

lsmod

?

Ciao!

Free