rawhide report: 20061215 - Kernel, no grub entry

[Dave Jones]

On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 05:38:43PM -0500, sean wrote:

 > So I created one, and rebooted.  That was a mess because 
 > _all_ hard drives on 2.6.19 are treated as scsi - sda,sdb, 
 > etc. BTW, cdrom/dvd is srX.

Yes. The old (moslty) unmaintained PATA drivers are no longer built,
in favour of the shiny new PATA drivers that work with libata.

 > Maybe /sbin/grubby knew enough not to like root=/dev/hda5? ( 
 > I've dropped the Label= )?

Situations like this are the reason mount by label is there.
If you remove it, you get to fix up by hand when things change.

		Dave

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