Re: grub wants root=/dev/hde??

[Mark Hannon <markhannon@optusnet.com.au>]

On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 15:04 -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> Grub keeps putting my root on /dev/hde.
> 
> Originally this is where my harddrive was.
> Now I have moved it to /dev/hda.  Why
> won't Grub recognize this?  I keep having
> to edit the root= line at each boot?
> 
> lance

Look for a commented line in menu.lst similar to:

# kopt=root=/dev/hda3 ro vga=791

This line is used by grub's install script to generate new 
entries into the menu when you install a new kernel.  Change
the root= entry to suit your system.

/mark