On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 11:59:50PM +0100, Martyn wrote: > Some time ago I upgraded my hard drive, & rather than reinstall I did a dump > & restore of / . Consequently the new disk/partition has a different UUID to > the old one, afterwards rather than faff about with UUIDs I modified > /etc/fstab & /boot/grub/menu.lst to use good old /dev/sda6 & all was well; > however when I recently did a kernel upgrade it put the UUID field back in > menu.lst BUT it put the wrong UUID (I think it had the one from the of the > old disk/partition & not the current one) and consequently it wouldn't > reboot without a bit of fiddling.
You missed a spot in menu.lst. See the "# kopt=" line (yes, it looks like a comment; don't uncomment it, just edit the root= bit). Run update-grub when you've finished to test it. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/