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? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
