On 01 Jul 2008, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: >> On 30 Jun 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 03:28:10PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: >>> >>>>> Uh-oh, speaking of initrds: I forgot that in my previous message; you >>>>> should probably rebuild it if you change your fstab to labels or UUIDs. >>>> How do you do that? I changed to UUID and I got the same message with >>>> 2.6.25 although 2.6.23 still boots normally. I don't know how you would >>>> rebuilt initrds. >>> dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-... >>> >>> Regards, >>> Andrei >>> -- >>> If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. >>> (Albert Einstein) >> >> >> Well, I finally found the answer but it's very odd. I don't think it >> should work but it does. I put the "wrong" root entry in >> /boot/grub/menu.lst. All previous kernels have had /dev/hdb9 but this >> kernel seems to need /dev/hdb10. Here is the relevant section of the >> file: >> > > <snip> > > and did you use a vga= parm? And did that work? > > Hugo >
No, I didn't do that at any time. I simply changed /dev/hdb9 to /dev/hdb10. I can't understand why the two kernels should require different values, but there it is. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
