Somebody in the thread at some point said: >> As I pointed out 18 hours ago, if it was the case the root=(LABEL=/ ?) >> part of the kernel commandline in /boot/grub/grub.conf no longer matched >> the partitions on the drive for some reason, it could have directly > >> explained it. > > > Because it is cached. It is necessary to delete > > */etc/blkid/blkid.tab > > *before rebooting the first time. > > Mine looks like this: > > <device DEVNO="0x0802" TIME="1189078643" LABEL="/" > UUID="9d36358b-a777-4df2-8ac8-782a972145df" SEC_TYPE="ext2" > TYPE="ext3">/dev/sda2</device> > > If the new "/" in my case is no longer /dev/sda2 it will not work > (unless I delete the cache). Well it's interesting to hear about that file, which is new to me. But unless you're proposing that it does mount the correct / filesystem, reads this file on /etc from that filesystem, and only then errors out, I don't see how it can explain the symptoms as I understood them. -Andy
