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Re: dosfslabel linux-base grub mess



On Sb, 31 iul 10, 12:42:35, Thomas H. George wrote:
> 
> 6. During the installation of the new kernel the fstab was modified to
> identify the hard drives by their UUID's.  The system then could no
> longer be booted from MBR's installed by grub.  The boot tried to load
> the new 2.6.32-5 kernel but failed when the root directory could not be
> found.

I assume this is grub1 (legacy). Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and change the 
line:

# kopt=root=/dev/Xda other_kernel_opts

to

# kopt=root=UUID=uuid_of_root_part other_kernel_opts

and then run 'update-grub'
 
Regards,
Andrei
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