>>>>> "david" == david <da...@kenpro.com.au> writes:
david> then I got this swag of errors. I've been googling madly but no david> joy. david> /dev/sdb1 (root drive) and /dev/sdc1 (unmounted backup) both david> have boot directories. It leaves me somewhat nervous about david> re-booting. Any suggestions? david> thanks This sounds like grub2. I'm not much help there --- the config files are not documented, and the tools have near-useless man pages. There should however be a way to regenerate the device map that tells grub what BIOS drive number corresponds to which drive. I have no idea how to tell whether such a generated file is correct -- it seems that the BIOS drive numbers change around depending on what you tell SETUP, and how it chooses to scan the scsi, sata and IDE buses today. And how those numbers then map onto the grub numbers (hd0,n) is also magic. Try running grub-mkdevicemap before doing an apt-get -f install to rerun unconfigured bits and see if that helps. Check the /boot/grub/device.map file. It should contain something like (hd0) /dev/sdb (hd1) /dev/sdc assuming that you want to use /dev/sdb as the boot device. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html