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
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