Bug#548290: 2.6.30 cannot find root file system

2009-10-04 Thread mniven
Until this problem came up I did not know much about uuids - things just worked. As I posted before, the problem had disappeared by using /dev/hdax. In order to set about recreating it I had to find out what uuid to put back in, and using blkid discovered that my root partition had completely lost

Bug#548290: 2.6.30 cannot find root file system

2009-10-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 23:47 +0200, Mark Niven wrote: > I had the same problem with the 2.6.30 kernel. It seems to me that this > kernel > has a problem recognising UUID designations: booting into the previous 2.6.29 > worked fine. I then edited the linux command line from within the grub shell

Bug#548290: 2.6.30 cannot find root file system

2009-10-01 Thread Mark Niven
I had the same problem with the 2.6.30 kernel. It seems to me that this kernel has a problem recognising UUID designations: booting into the previous 2.6.29 worked fine. I then edited the linux command line from within the grub shell at boot time, replacing root=UUID= to a straightforwar