Re: [PLUG] drives not properly named after switch

sean finney <seanius@seanius.net> · Fri, 21 Oct 2005 05:22:27 -0400

hi chris,

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 08:18:07PM -0400, Christopher M. Jones wrote:
> When I made the switch, I changed /boot/grub/menu.lst to reflect the new
> drive configuration. But when I later recompiled my kernel and installed
> it, grub rewrote the menu to the previous configuration, looking for
> kernels etc. on /dev/hdb1. I also noticed just a while a go that df -ah

this is a frequent point of confusion with debian based grub.  if you
take a look at your menu.lst file, you'll see a section of
commented out options above the list of of boot images.  these are used
to set default options for the automatically generated list of boot
settings below.  _without uncommenting them_, there's probably an option
you should change to reference hda instead of hdb now.

> kernels etc. on /dev/hdb1. I also noticed just a while a go that df -ah
> lists two /dev/hdb1's, one mounted / and one
> mounted /media/disk. /media/disk really is /dev/hdb1, but / is really
> mounted on /dev/hda1. So something tells me that I have to do more than
> manually edit /boot/grub/menu.lst when I change my drive configuration.
> Can anyone tell me how to do this properly?

did you update fstab too?

	sean