On Sat, 16 May 2009 19:59:38 -0500, "David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E." <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
Listmates,
I am in a fist-fight with grub again most likely due to /dev/disk/by-uuid and I'm losing the battle.
First, the situation. I'm moving and resizing partitions from an 80G drive to a 500G drive. No issues there. The partitions setup is:
/dev/sda1 WinXP /dev/sda2 Extended /dev/sda5 /home /dev/sda6 / /dev/sda7 swap /dev/sda8 /boot
After moving and resizing the partitions windows boot fine and Arch boots until it gets to kinit and then throws a kernel panic. I have updated the
disk/by-uuid labels in /boot/grub/menu.lst and in /etc/fstab, but still the
kinit error.
As far as my grub install goes, the system boot to the grub menu and it is reading /boot/grub/menu.lst because I can boot XP from the grub menu, but not boot Arch.
Gurus... What to check? Throw a brother a bone.... Where else is the disk by-uuid stuff hidden?
Try replacing the disk-by-uuid stuff with direct paths to the device nodes (ex. /dev/sda2, etc). If you can get this to work then start switching back to disk-by-uuid. ~pyther