booting fedora 11 from a fedora 10 grub?

[Aioanei Rares]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 7:05 PM, James Allsopp <jamesaallsopp at googlemail.com
> 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 at georgeanelson.com>
>
> 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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