On Sunday 20 December 2015 11:36:18 David Baron wrote: > On Sunday 20 December 2015 08:07:31 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 12:58:47 +0200 > > > > David Baron <d_ba...@012.net.il> wrote: > > > Edited newroot/etc/fstab and newroot/etc/lilo.conf to point root to > > > newrootpartition (by uuid) > > > > Have you tried getting rid of the UUID crap in both newroot/etc/fstab and > > newroot/etc/lilo.conf, and mount them the old way, as /dev/something ? > > Could do this, but only is his "deprecated" and not recommended anywhere > else, but my goal is to remove and older 80gig IDE disk from the system. As > soon as I unplug it, those /dev/somethings are invalid. Which is why using > UUID is recommended.
You could use /dev/something or other to get it going, then substitute the UUIDs once it works, and before doing the unplugging.. Lisi