On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 21:12 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 03:16:06PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 01:48:37PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 01:15:58PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 12:46 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Do I understand this correctly? > > > > > > > > > > In my /boot/grub/menu.lst there is a stanza > > > > > > > > > > title other: Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-486 > > > > > root (hd0,7) > > > > ^^^^ > > > > This particular "root" is the "grub installation root" IOW it will load > > > > the following line like this > > > > > > > > (hd0,7)/vmlinuz-2.6.18-3-486 root=/dev/mapper/lovesong-other ro > > > > > > > > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-3-486 > > > > > root=/dev/mapper/lovesong-other ro > > > > ^^^^ > > > > That root is the "root" of your machine. and it is passed onto your > > > > kernel as a command line option. > > > > > > I see... so (hd0,7) is the partition where grub looks up all the > > > unadorned filenames bentioned in the stanza. And the other root is the > > > root of the filesystem in the to-be-booted system. > > > > > > > > yup. > > > > Maybe you're problem is in the initrd. If it is built to look for / in > > place and you've moved it (which you've done by changing the root= > > parameter, then maybe that is the problem. Try chrooting into the new > > system and building a new initrd from within the chroot. It has worked > > for me before (etch) when moving partitions around. > > > > A > > Perhaps the simple solution to the original problem is to install etch > from scratch rather than try to upgrade sarge. > > Still ... that makes it seem too much like Windows.
Well since you pulled a 70's IBM move:
1. Shoot self in foot.
2. Reload.
3. Repeat.
It is not a Windows problem... buddy! (LOL)
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