booting fedora 11 from a fedora 10 grub?

[Tony Nelson]

On 09-09-19 12:05:20, James Allsopp wrote:
> So is there some sort of conversion in the initrd converting from the
> UUId to something conventional like /dev/sdb2,

No, the UUID is just looked at for each volume until a match is found 
(or not).  Try the `blkid` command; see `man blkid`.

> and if so why doesn't just substituting /dev/sdb2 not work.

Perhaps that is not the correct name, or your "root" line is wrong.  It 
is also possible that the UUID was changed when you reinstalled (though 
it should not change unless you reformatted the drive).


> 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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