Digby Tarvin wrote: > Can any tell me the appropriate way of convincing Debian that the > root filesystem has moved to a new partition? > > I repartitioned the system disk a few days ago, and after updating > /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst everthing was working fine.. > > But when I 'dpkg -i' a new kernel, the old partition number > reappeared in /boot/grub/menu.lst - which of course didn't > help booting the new kernel :-/ > > I assume Debian has some knowledge of which partition is the > root partition secreted somewhere, but I havn't found it yet. > > Parhaps there was some sort of 'reconfigure' command I am supposed > to run when the partitioning changes?? > > Also, having tried a new kernel and installed with 'dpkg -i', is > it safe to just remove the files from /root and edit it out of > /boot/grub, or is it better to use pkg or apt to do it? > > Regards, > DigbyT Did you run grub-isntall after moving the root partition? I am guesing that you don't have /boot on a seperate partition and that you didn't run grub-install, which is confusing it. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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