Re: dosfslabel linux-base grub mess
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 09:05:45PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> 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
> --
It is grub2. I checked and the # kopt is in the new format and the
UUID is that of the root partition. I ran update-grub just to be sure
and now the system will boot from a MBR written by grub. The output of
df -h is still the same mixed up mess.
Regards,
Tom
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