Geoffrey Cowling <[email protected]> writes:
[...]
> 6. There was a suggestion about using apt-get "reinstall kernel", but
> htis seems to be a wish rather than an option. Right?
It exists, but was presumably poorly described:
apt-get install --reinstall your-package-here
[...]
> 7. I tried update-grub next. This said it could not find the root,
> corrupted fstab? trying hda1. Which was no use!
>
> 8. fstab was perfectly good. But grub was having trouble. I do not
> understand this "new-fangled" UUID or whatever.. so i thought this might
> be the problem. I removed the UUID and uncommented the /sdb 's
>
> 9. BINGO.
You will want to make sure that 'update-grub' does the right thing when you
are booted from the hard disk; it would suck to discover that it restored the
broken settings next time the kernel updated...
> 10. So did something corrupt the identification of the SATA disks? I
> thought the point of ther ID was to label the disk unmistakably?
The UUID is part of the *filesystem*, not the disk; they point is to be able
to identify the content without reference to the physical location.
Regards,
Daniel
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