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  1. Bug #579572
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 579572

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Maarten Boot (mboot-nospam) wrote :

We are currently testing a way around this by using device independent paths:

Like found in Suse :

parts of /boot/grub/menu.lst

## ## Start Default Options ##
## default kernel options
## default kernel options for automagic boot options
## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z
## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted.
## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
## kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro
## kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro

<<< NOTE THE CHANGE HERE
# kopt=root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-3600508e00000000046e7e17454e23c05-part1 ro vga=791

## ## End Default Options ##

title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64
root (hd0,0)
<<< NOTE THE CHANGE HERE
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64 root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-3600508e00000000046e7e17454e23c05-part1 ro vga=791 quiet
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64

title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64 (single-user mode)
root (hd0,0)
<<< NOTE THE CHANGE HERE
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64 root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-3600508e00000000046e7e17454e23c05-part1 ro vga=791 single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

And accordingly /etc/fstab

rebooting since this morning, so far it works