Juha Tuuna said: >> The boot fails with messages: >> Gave up waiting for root device. >> ALERT! /dev/disk/by-label/D5root does not exist. >> Dropping to a shell! >> >> At that stage there is no /dev/disk directory (let alone a by-label >> subdir!) >> >> I use labels for my partitions because I have a mix of SATA and SCSI >> disks and Etch and Lenny find them in different order! I have exactly >> equivalent GRUB stanzas for both kernels; 2.6.26-1-686 has no problem. >> >Try editing /boot/grub/menu.lst
> Look at the working 2.6.26-1 entry and then match the root= in 2.6.26-2 entry > accordingly. That should be it. Done that. That is not the problem - here are the GRUB menu.lst entries: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686 root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=LABEL=D5root ro quiet initrd /initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686 title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-1-686 root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=LABEL=D5root ro quiet initrd /initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686 The second one works, the first fails. Why? Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
