On 08/27/2010 01:10 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> Anyway, make sure you have a bootable Linux CD/DVD handy. That way, you >> won't be able to blow anything up and can boot from it in order to >> change your /etc/fstab and grub conf. > > Alternatively, give your partitions Labels and reconfigure /etc/fstab to use > those. > Then you don't have to worry about the changes to the device-names.
I second Joost's recommendation. I don't think you can use labels on the kernel command line, so your grub will have to know for sure which device to boot.