On Sonntag, 17. Mai 2009 10:02 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote:
After switching /boot/grub/menu.lst and /etc/fstab from disk/by-uuid labels to the standard /dev/sda# labels everything boots and runs fine. Now the question of why the by-uuid labels did not work? I updated the uuid lables in each file with the right value from /dev/disk/by-uuid using strick copy and paste to eliminate typos and then verified 3 times, they were right.
There is a longer existing second mechanism in linux named disklabel. See here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Persistent_block_device_naming The advantage is that you can recreate partitions without a problem if you use the same name for a disklabel as before. The disadvantage is that a lot of people think that this labels can get lost instead this never happens to me.-) See this as an optional information about your problem. See you, Attila