On Lu, 14 feb 11, 20:41:11, Frank Miles wrote: > I've just tried updating a seldom-used laptop from "lenny" (2.6.26 > custom-compiled kernel) > to "squeeze". Everything seemed to be working perfectly until the > reboot. Rebooting gives a repeated message "fsck died with exit > status 8". > > Using nano to rename the /etc/fstab entries /dev/hdaX -> /dev/sdaX does no > good - same > message occurs. The kernel that it's trying to boot is still the 2.6.26. > > Booting from a "rescue" CD allows me to successfully e2fsck all the linux > partitions > - they all come out clean. > > The grub2 config references /dev/hdaX rather than /dev/sdaX. > > Is there some way to make this system self-consistently functional? Without > scrubbing > and starting all over?
Yes, use UUIDs or LABELs everywhere. This will work with both the old and the new kernel(s). Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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