Re: Confusion between hde1 and hda1

["Steven Maddox (Architect)" <s.maddox@functionoffice.com>]

Thanks for that!

I wouldn't never have thought of it as it looked like it was commented out!

Obviously two hashes are better than one!

Sincerely...

Steven Maddox
(Architect)

Function Office
http://www.functionoffice.com



Greg Folkert wrote:
> 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.
>