Hi, On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Paul E Condon <pecon...@mesanetworks.net> wrote: > I'm working on a computer that I am trying to make dual-boot into both > Lenny and Squeeze. As some are already aware, squeeze rewrites > /etc/fstab to replace devices like /dev/hda2 with a UUID for the > device that is a long computer generated string. I know very little > about UUIDs but I suppose they are intended to be 'unique'. But I > suppose that they are required to be persistent, i.e. they don't > change over time. > > I experienced non-persistence today. While running Squeeze I noticed > that one of my partitions, in particular the one that contained the > Lenny installation, which I had put in the /dev/hda3, had been > re-identified with a different UUID on reboot of the compute so that > the entry in /etc/fstab could not be used to mount that partition > under Squeeze (which was installed in /dev/hda2). I edited /etc/fstab > to contain the new, diffenent UUID that I found by looking in > /dev/disk/by-uuid, and was able to mount the partition, but it was > hardly 'automatic'. I can't imagine any case where an filesystem UUID change "by the face", I think this is not possible if you didn't execute any filesystem command to do it.
I don't know how did you install both systems, but maybe /etc/mtab file is causing the fault or maybe a root wrong option in grub Regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/81c921f31003121059l2fdae414o59259307ffe21...@mail.gmail.com