Coert Waagmeester wrote:
It has indeed happened to me with an IDE PATA disk.
Try first only to change only your grub config.
Then if you see that the kernel boots fine, you can change /etc/fstab.
If you want you can even use LABELs in fstab.
give your ext{2,3} partitions labels with e2label
and change the device node eg /dev/hda1 in fstab to LABEL=yournewlabel
Regards,
Coert Waagmeester
I agree with this 100%. I switched mine to the new PATA drivers and I
couldn't figure out what the drive order was. I used LABELS and it has
worked ever since. The funny thing is, I have a card to hook a SATA
drive up to and it puts it first instead of the drives that are hooked
directly to the mobo. I wasn't expecting that and that was why I could
not get mine to boot with the PATA drives. Bad thing is, the CD/DVD's I
have still use the old IDE drivers so I couldn't even test it by booting
that.
I have not been able to get grub to see the LABELS yet but I'm going to
post fstab so that you have a example that is known to work and not from
a guide:
/dev/disk/by-label/boot /boot ext2 noatime 1 2
/dev/disk/by-label/root / reiserfs defaults 0 1
/dev/disk/by-label/swap none swap sw 0 0
/dev/disk/by-label/portage /usr/portage ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/disk/by-label/home /home reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/disk/by-label/data /data reiserfs defaults 0 1
Now someone post their grub.conf for us both. I just can't get mine to
work with grub at all. I can't even use tab to find the drives in the
boot menu.
Hope that helps.
Dale
:-) :-)
