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Re: Bug#475958: document procedure to recover from "/dev/hda became /dev/sda" boot failure



On Sat,11.Oct.08, 00:27:02, Giovanni Rapagnani wrote:

> If this solution worked. Login to your system, make a backup of the
> '/boot/grub/menu.lst' file. Then generate a new '/boot/grub/menu.lst'
> by issuing with root privileges the command:
>   update-grub
>
> Edit '/boot/grub/menu.lst' and make sure all occurences of 'hdX' were replaced
> by 'sdX'. There is nothing wrong with the lines similar to:
>   root            (hd0,0)
> just leave it as it is.

Hello,

Running 'update-grub' *before* editing menu.lst won't do anything. I 
would suggest:

> If this solution worked. Login to your system, make a backup of the
> '/boot/grub/menu.lst' file. Then look for the line starting with
> '# kopt' and change hdX with sdX. In this example it would be sda6 
> instead of hda6. Then run the command 'update-grub'.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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