Re: dosfslabel linux-base grub mess

2010-08-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 31 iul 10, 14:46:55, Thomas H. George wrote: > > It is grub2. I checked and the # kopt is in the new format and the > > UUID is that of the root partition. I ran update-grub just to be sure > > and now the system will boot from a MBR written by

Re: dosfslabel linux-base grub mess

2010-07-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 31 July 2010 16:15:16 Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20100731_225121, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sb, 31 iul 10, 14:46:55, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > It is grub2. I checked and the # kopt is in the new format and the > > > UUID is that of the root partition. I ran update-grub just to b

Re: dosfslabel linux-base grub mess

2010-07-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 31 July 2010 11:42:35 Thomas H. George wrote: > as compared to the output of df -h > > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sdc1 71G 39G 29G 58% / > tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /lib/init/rw > udev 2.0G 252K 2

Re: dosfslabel linux-base grub mess

2010-07-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 31 iul 10, 15:15:16, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20100731_225121, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sb, 31 iul 10, 14:46:55, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > It is grub2. I checked and the # kopt is in the new format and the > > > UUID is that of the root partition. I ran update-grub just to be sure

Re: dosfslabel linux-base grub mess

2010-07-31 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100731_225121, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 31 iul 10, 14:46:55, Thomas H. George wrote: > > It is grub2. I checked and the # kopt is in the new format and the > > UUID is that of the root partition. I ran update-grub just to be sure > > and now the system will boot from a MBR written by g

Re: dosfslabel linux-base grub mess

2010-07-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 31 iul 10, 14:46:55, Thomas H. George wrote: > It is grub2. I checked and the # kopt is in the new format and the > UUID is that of the root partition. I ran update-grub just to be sure > and now the system will boot from a MBR written by grub. The output of > df -h is still the same mixe

Re: dosfslabel linux-base grub mess

2010-07-31 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 09:05:45PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > 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

Re: dosfslabel linux-base grub mess

2010-07-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
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 bu

dosfslabel linux-base grub mess

2010-07-31 Thread Thomas H. George
TWIMC: The following is a summary of the problems I encountered when the kernel image vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 was released. 1. A dist-upgrade loaded and tried to install linux-base and the 2.6.32-5 kernel image. The install failed with error messages from dosfslabel. 2. Running dosfslabel on each