On Sb, 31 iul 10, 12:42:35, Thomas H. George wrote: > > 6. During the installation of the new kernel the fstab was modified to > identify the hard drives by their UUID's. The system then could no > longer be booted from MBR's installed by grub. The boot tried to load > the new 2.6.32-5 kernel but failed when the root directory could not be > found.
I assume this is grub1 (legacy). Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and change the line: # kopt=root=/dev/Xda other_kernel_opts to # kopt=root=UUID=uuid_of_root_part other_kernel_opts and then run 'update-grub' Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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