Re: Grub problem

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il>]

On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 11:03:48PM +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
> Op Sat, 8 Nov 2008 22:22:15 +0200 Bela Balazs wrote:
> > The two menu.lst entries:
> > 
> > title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.24-1-686
> > root            (hd0,1)
> > kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686
> > root=UUID=5dd1a349-c311-40ca-82f4-a7a39ca134a3 ro
> > initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-686
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > I tried changing the UUID to /dev/sda2 but still no luck.
> > I'm sure that Debian is installed on that partition (I know from
> > fdisk -l in Ubuntu).
> 
> I believe 'root (hd0,1)' should be 'root (sd0,1)'.

No. Grub only calls disks "hd". It has not heard of "soft-disk" :-)

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