[oclug] Motherboard setup; now grub problem ??

[Martin Duclos]

Hey Bill,
I'm assuming you're installing a new distribution (or upgraded to a new 
distribution). It's always a good idea to read the chagelog for info on 
chages. In Fedora7, there has been a change to the ide hard drive links in 
/dev. They now show up as /dev/sda instead of /dev/hda. When booting, stop 
at grub and press e to edit the kernel paramters. Edit the line that has 
root /dev/hda7 and change it to /dev/sda7. Once that's done the system will 
boot fine. Be sure to do that change in grub.conf file since that setting a 
boot parameter in grub at boot time won't save it to your file. Labels only 
work when the discs are mounted (after grub). I believe the label is written 
at the end of a partition. Be very careful when adding a new harddisk since 
both disk might have the same labels... I always get rid of labels and use 
the device name. But I digress. Let me know if you have any luck booting the 
system!
Martin



Hi;

   Probably doing something stupid, but getting weary of screwing around 
trying to get re-going.

   When I boot to Linux (Fedora 7) I get the following message:

   "Powernow-k8; MP systems not supported by PSB BIOS structures
   Red Hat Nash version 6.0.9
   Unable to access resume device LABEL=SWAP=hdb6
   mount could not find filesystem'/ev/root'
   setuproot moving /dev build
   no such file or directory"

   hdb6 have been changed to sdb6 etc.
   fstab uses all labels, where are these LABELS defined?
   Grub uses "  root /dev/hda7

   ... ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet"

   Any suggestions welcome.  I admit I could probably find the answer on my 
own; but I am getting tired of screwing around.  I would appreciate it if 
someone could help with a quick fix.

   Regards Bill

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