casper no longer wants to boot off HDD devices
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casper (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Bug Description
Some time in the last year or so casper appears to have stopped wanting to boot off HDD devices. It previously was able to by setting UUID= on the command line or by having a common casper-
I've tried to narrow this down a little bit, and I believe the problem is in:
is_nice_device
Previously, udev would be queried to determine if the given device matched this path:
usb|pci-
Unfortunately according to bug https:/
This does match the behavior I see that the command in question in the busted initrd prompt doesn't output anything useful like it used to.
I've reproduced this using the 14.04 daily image from March 17th.
Related branches
description: | updated |
This bug was fixed in the package casper - 1.339
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casper (1.339) trusty; urgency=medium
* scripts/casper: Fix for new udev that doesn't have by-path. goo.gl/ R76aKl (LP: #1293811)
Original patch from http://
-- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden> Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:22:38 -0500