Bug#292038: Cannot boot from SATA-drives

[maximilian attems <debian@sternwelten.at>]

tags 292038 wishlist
retitle 292038 document sata device name change
thanks

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Joerg Hoh wrote:
> I've updated from kernel 2.4 to kernel-image-2.6.10-1-686 on a computer
> with 1 SATA drive and grub had a wrong kernel boot paramter (root=/dev/hda1
> instead of /dev/sda1) and did not boot with that new kernel.

fine to hear it works, the change of the root device can't be automated,
there are many different boot loaders.
the new debian-install can use directly the 2.6 kernel,
there it get's that right from the start.

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maks