booting fedora 11 from a fedora 10 grub?

James Allsopp jamesaallsopp at googlemail.com
Sat Sep 19 17:19:05 UTC 2009


but why isn't idenitfied by /dev/sda2 like partitions normally are? I'm not
understanding why a UUID is necessary, as opposed to a standard /dev/sd
pointer to the root partition.

Basically how can I get this to work?
Jim

2009/9/19 Aioanei Rares <schaiba at gmail.com>

>
>
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 7:05 PM, James Allsopp <
> jamesaallsopp at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
>
> Because, as Tony stated, the root partition is identified by its UUID.
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>> 2009/9/19 Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com>
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>> 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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