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Re: Confusion between hde1 and hda1



On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 16:00 +0100, Steven Maddox (Architect) wrote:
> Lo,
> 
> My first message, be kind! 
> 
> When I installed debian etch several weeks ago (the XFCE CD), the 
> installer believed it could see hda and thus / became hda1.  When 
> booting debian for the first time it saw it as hde - GRR I thought, so I 
> plodded along and altered the grub menu list and fstab - and it worked.
> 
> Yesterday I restarted the box (after quite a while) and the grub menu 
> seems to have back to being hda1 - probably because a kernel update or 
> reinstall re-making the menu.
> 
> I need to get my copy of debian to FORGET about hda1 - bah!  Any ideas 
> so this doesn't happen again?
> 
> p.s. This occurred on a Compaq ProLiant DL320

Yes.

As root, edit /boot/grub/menu.lst

goto the line that looks like:

        # kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro 

Make it look like:

        # kopt=root=/dev/hde1 ro

Then run: "update-grub"

This should make it work.
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