416469 – sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.32 adds invalid lines to grub.conf

Bug 416469 - sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.32 adds invalid lines to grub.conf

Summary: sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.32 adds invalid lines to grub.conf

Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	genkernel (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Genkernel Maintainers

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Reported:	2012-05-18 08:49 UTC by Nilesh Govindrajan
Modified:	2012-05-19 13:29 UTC (History)
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Description Nilesh Govindrajan 2012-05-18 08:49:24 UTC

I updated genkernel during a world update and then compiled a new kernel, but it failed to boot. On checking grub.conf/menu.lst I found that genkernel had added title=Gentoo Linux (3.3.4-ck) [I know ck-sources is not supported, but this is an issue about genkernel] which seems invalid, though grub didn't complain at boot.

Further, the initrd was added as intird which caused the failing boot. I used the grub 0.97 command line to boot manually then.

Comment 1 Sebastian Pipping gentoo-dev

2012-05-18 22:34:01 UTC

Please provide patches.  Afaik grub support is known to be broken, no idea.

Comment 2 Nilesh Govindrajan 2012-05-19 02:49:53 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Please provide patches.  Afaik grub support is known to be broken, no idea.

Patches? Do you mean fix or details? Yesterday another update to genkernel was released, I'll check if it has the same bug later.

Grub 0.97 was working quite well, I'd been using it to automatically add new kernel entries since a long time.

Comment 3 Nilesh Govindrajan 2012-05-19 13:29:14 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Please provide patches.  Afaik grub support is known to be broken, no idea.
> 
> Patches? Do you mean fix or details? Yesterday another update to genkernel
> was released, I'll check if it has the same bug later.
> 
> Grub 0.97 was working quite well, I'd been using it to automatically add new
> kernel entries since a long time.

Genkernel 3.4.33.1 was released, and it seems to have solved this bug of initrd becoming intird. Though it does insert title= which is not problematic.