On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 17:05 +0100, James Allsopp wrote: > So is there some sort of conversion in the initrd converting from the > UUId to something conventional like /dev/sdb2, and if so There's several ways to map one to another. The "blkid" command will list the drive partitions for you, detailing device names and related UUIDs. > why doesn't just substituting /dev/sdb2 not work. Perhaps, because when you boot differently, the drives are numbered differently. e.g. One system sees that partition as sdb2, another sees it as sdc2. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
