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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490568


           Summary: Bootloader sets a wrong root partition on kernel
                    update
    Classification: openSUSE
           Product: openSUSE 11.2
           Version: Alpha 0
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Critical
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: Bootloader
        AssignedTo: jsrain@xxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: mvyskocil@xxxxxxxxxx
         QAContact: jsrain@xxxxxxxxxx
          Found By: ---


Created an attachment (id=283076)
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Yast logs

I use a following layout of partitions:

/dev/sda1    ext2    /boot
/dev/sda2    xfs     /
/dev/sda3    xfs     /media/11_1
/dev/sda4    (extended)
/dev/sda5    ext3    /media/11_0
/dev/sda6    xfs     /home
/dev/sda7    swap

So kernel's are placed in separate partition as system. This works well until
11.2. Nowadays every kernel update broke my /boot/grub/menu.lst by changing a
root= to sda5 and it must be manually fixed in grub and afterwards in menu.lst.

Next boot hangs on 'cannot mount a root partition', because initrd contains
only xfs module. But this is correct because root partition is xfs and mkinitrd
detects it properly.

Used versions:
kernel-default-2.6.29-5.2
grub-0.97-157.4
yast2-bootloader-2.18.3-1.7
perl-Bootloader-0.4.90-1.3

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