Secure testing team - Jul 2009 - Bug#535538: upgrade-reports: Upgrading the kernel impossible when hda is redirected to hde

Package: upgrade-reports
Severity: grave
Tags: security
Justification: renders package unusable


When I enter 

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

this does work for almost all packages but not for upgrading the kernel. Instead
of using my own /grub/menu.lst the upgrade-procedure uses its own commands, 
especially 
"kernel  /vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64 root=LABEL=wg-bootpart ro quiet 
[Linux-bzImage ... ]" 
The following messages appear after apt-get dist-upgrade: 

"
.........

Booting the kernel 

.........

Loading, please wait ...

mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: 
       no such file or directory

[The same errors concerning /sys and /proc] 

Target filesystem doesn''t have /sbin/init. 
No init found. 

..........

"
Then the system halts and does not work further. 

My desktop owns 1 IDE-controller on the motherboard and 2
PCI-RAID-IDE-controller
(without using the RAID-facility) on a PCI-card. 

My fstab contains the following lines: 

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>      
<dump>  <pass>
proc                    /proc           proc     defaults        0       0
LABEL=wg-rootpart       /               reiserfs defaults        0       1
LABEL=wg-bootpart       /boot           reiserfs notail          0       2
LABEL=wg-swappart       none            swap     sw              0       0
/dev/hdb        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660      user,noauto     0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto             rw,user,noauto  0       0

My /boot/grub/menu.lst contains the following lines:

# menu.lst - See: grub(8), info grub, update-grub(8)
#            grub-install(8), grub-floppy(8),
#            grub-md5-crypt, /usr/share/doc/grub
#            and /usr/share/doc/grub-legacy-doc/.

## default num
# Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. Numbering starts from 0, and
# the entry number 0 is the default if the command is not used.
#
# You can specify ''saved'' instead of a number. In this case,
the default entry
# is the entry saved with the command ''savedefault''.
# WARNING: If you are using dmraid do not change this entry to
''saved'' or your
# array will desync and will not let you boot your system.
default		0

## timeout sec
# Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the default entry
# (normally the first entry defined).
timeout		5

# Pretty colours
color cyan/blue white/blue

## password [''--md5''] passwd
# If used in the first section of a menu file, disable all interactive editing
# control (menu entry editor and command-line)  and entries protected by the
# command ''lock''
# e.g. password topsecret
#      password --md5 $1$gLhU0/$aW78kHK1QfV3P2b2znUoe/
# password topsecret

#
# examples
#
# title		Windows 95/98/NT/2000
# root		(hd0,0)
# makeactive
# chainloader	+1
#
# title		Linux
# root		(hd0,1)
# kernel	/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro
#

#
# Put static boot stanzas before and/or after AUTOMAGIC KERNEL LIST

### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified
## by the debian update-grub script except for the default options below

## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs

## ## Start Default Options ##
## default kernel options
## default kernel options for automagic boot options
## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z
## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted.
## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
##      kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro
##      kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro
# kopt=root=LABEL=wg-bootpart ro

## default grub root device
## e.g. groot=(hd0,0)
# groot=(hd0,0)

## should update-grub create alternative automagic boot options
## e.g. alternative=true
##      alternative=false
# alternative=true

## should update-grub lock alternative automagic boot options
## e.g. lockalternative=true
##      lockalternative=false
# lockalternative=false

## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the
## alternatives
## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5
# defoptions=quiet

## should update-grub lock old automagic boot options
## e.g. lockold=false
##      lockold=true
# lockold=false

## Xen hypervisor options to use with the default Xen boot option
# xenhopt
## Xen Linux kernel options to use with the default Xen boot option
# xenkopt=console=tty0

## altoption boot targets option
## multiple altoptions lines are allowed
## e.g. altoptions=(extra menu suffix) extra boot options
##      altoptions=(single-user) single
# altoptions=(single-user mode) single

## controls how many kernels should be put into the menu.lst
## only counts the first occurence of a kernel, not the
## alternative kernel options
## e.g. howmany=all
##      howmany=7
# howmany=all

## should update-grub create memtest86 boot option
## e.g. memtest86=true
##      memtest86=false
# memtest86=true

## should update-grub adjust the value of the default booted system
## can be true or false
# updatedefaultentry=false

## should update-grub add savedefault to the default options
## can be true or false
# savedefault=false

## ## End Default Options ##

title		Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64
password  ... 
root		(hd0,0)
kernel		/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64 
root=UUID=8e1b2e49-3dfb-4942-8eb6-9868733c5d15 ro splash=verbose
initrd		/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64

title		Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64 (single-user mode)
password  ... 
root		(hd0,0)
kernel		/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64 
root=UUID=8e1b2e49-3dfb-4942-8eb6-9868733c5d15 ro single splash=verbose
initrd		/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, ''stable'')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash