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. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup
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