booting fedora 11 from a fedora 10 grub?

James Allsopp jamesaallsopp at googlemail.com
Sat Sep 19 16:05:20 UTC 2009


So is there some sort of conversion in the initrd converting from the UUId
to something conventional like /dev/sdb2, and if so why doesn't just
substituting /dev/sdb2 not work.

2009/9/19 Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com>

> On 09-09-19 07:57:03, James Allsopp wrote:
> > ... I don't really understand why it's using the UUID, ...
>
> Because the GRUB stanza you copied to boot F11 says:
>
>    root=UUID=7ba6f364-68c2-4dad-a54e-18c3464b0eb5
>
> That is, it says root is identified by its UUID.
>
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