Re: Misbooting

[Derrik Pates]

On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Mark Collette wrote:

> I am using a RAID setup on /dev/hda with my root being /dev/hda2. I
> installed grub on the system when the root was /dev/hdc2. After changing
> everything in /boot/grub to refer to /ev/hda2 it still tries booting to
> /dev/hdc2. I cannot understand why. Can you please help me?

If there are any instances where you don't explicitly specify the root
device, and you have a custom-built kernel that hasn't been rebuilt since
the change, it'll try to boot from whatever the root device was when it
was built.

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