Re: [ubuntu-uk] How do kernel builds etc determine the UUID of the root partition?

2007-09-15 Thread Martyn
From: Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] You missed a spot in menu.lst. See the # kopt= line I did! (yes, it looks like a comment; don't uncomment it, just edit the root= bit). Indeed it does, which is probably how I missed it. Thanks -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How do kernel builds etc determine the UUID of the root partition?

2007-09-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 11:59:50PM +0100, Martyn wrote: Some time ago I upgraded my hard drive, rather than reinstall I did a dump restore of / . Consequently the new disk/partition has a different UUID to the old one, afterwards rather than faff about with UUIDs I modified /etc/fstab

[ubuntu-uk] How do kernel builds etc determine the UUID of the root partition?

2007-09-12 Thread Martyn
Hi people, Some time ago I upgraded my hard drive, rather than reinstall I did a dump restore of / . Consequently the new disk/partition has a different UUID to the old one, afterwards rather than faff about with UUIDs I modified /etc/fstab /boot/grub/menu.lst to use good old /dev/sda6 all

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How do kernel builds etc determine the UUID of the root partition?

2007-09-12 Thread Robert McWilliam
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:59:50 +0100 Martyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know where the kernel builds the like get the root partition UUID from? I'm guessing it must be held in a file somewhere, so if I can identify it I'll change it to the right one for future upgrades etc. I greped in