Re: Always falling to grub prompt

[Wackojacko <wackojacko32@ntlworld.com>]

Wayne Topa wrote:

> title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.22-2-686
> --- >  root            (hd1,0)
> ---->  kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-2-686 root=/dev/hdd1 ro
> initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-2-686
> savedefault
>
> Grub did the 2 --> Lines?  The root line says hdb and the kernel line
> says hdd. No wonder it won't boot.  Yet the older kernels boot up with
> the same (wrong looking) root and kernel lines, so I am wrong.  I have
> not yet upgraded any of my sid partitions to the 2.6.22-2 kernel.
> Maybe I have this problem to look forward to or maybe I should wait
> till it (whatever 'it' is) gets fixed.
>
> Sorry I could not help.
>
> Wayne
Not necessarily.  Grub uses /boot/grub/device.map to identify which HDD 
maps to which (hd?).  It might be useful to see the OP's device.map 
file, but grub could just ignore hda and hdb as they are not HDD.

HTH

Wackojacko