Fedora Users — Re: booting fedora 11 from a fedora 10 grub?

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@xxxxxxxxx>

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 7:05 PM, James Allsopp <jamesaallsopp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.

2009/9/19 Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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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