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.
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