On Sat, 16 May 2009 19:59:38 -0500, "David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E." <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Listmates, > > I am in a fist-fight with grub again most likely due to /dev/disk/by-uuid > and > I'm losing the battle. > > First, the situation. I'm moving and resizing partitions from an 80G drive > to > a 500G drive. No issues there. The partitions setup is: > > /dev/sda1 WinXP > /dev/sda2 Extended > /dev/sda5 /home > /dev/sda6 / > /dev/sda7 swap > /dev/sda8 /boot > > After moving and resizing the partitions windows boot fine and Arch boots > until it gets to kinit and then throws a kernel panic. I have updated the > disk/by-uuid labels in /boot/grub/menu.lst and in /etc/fstab, but still the > > kinit error. > > As far as my grub install goes, the system boot to the grub menu and it is > reading /boot/grub/menu.lst because I can boot XP from the grub menu, but > not > boot Arch. > > Gurus... What to check? Throw a brother a bone.... Where else is the disk > by-uuid stuff hidden? Try replacing the disk-by-uuid stuff with direct paths to the device nodes (ex. /dev/sda2, etc). If you can get this to work then start switching back to disk-by-uuid. ~pyther
