On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 10:36:33AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 02 Jul 2008, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 02 Jul 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 08:46:53AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > > > Sorry, I hadn't read the e2label line properly. But I don't think it > > > > would affect the issue I encountered here, which was a change in the > > > > actual partition referred to. The label would still be referring to > > > > the wrong partition. Still, now that I know this can happen I will not > > > > be caught by it in the future. > > > > > > Would you mind posting "fdisk -l" for both kernels (or just tell us if > > > there is a difference). I'm guessing your problem is elsewhere and > > > labels would help avoid it. > > > > > > > They are identical. > > > > As an experiment, I tried changing root=/dev/hdb9 to root=/dev/hdb10 for > the previous kernel (2.6.23) and that booted as well! So it looks as if > the earlier kernel could use either setting but the later one only > accepts /dev/hdb10. > > Is grub perhaps more flexible about this than I thought? AFAIUI grub only passes that information to the kernel. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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