('thats odd..') Lenny not booting

[ayu]

After the installation of Debian Lenny, all the devices that once were hd, changed to sd, like hda1 and hdb1 are now sda1 and sdb1 ... so Lenny wont boot now. And I can't figure out how to change it from the command line that is supplied in grub.

I got some info from the enormous "WARNING" message, and it said "try root = /dev/sda1", but....try where? ^^ I can't edit /proc/cmdline or anything =/ it's read only.

Help? =(

[G-Brain]

SCSI drivers.

root= is a kernel option. You can add it in grub's menu.lst or add it by switching to the command line on boot. Something like this:

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kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hda1

[bad_brain]

I had the same issue, but because I had Sarge installed too I could edit menu.list from there.
to edit it from GRUB you don't have to use the command line:
- in the GRUB screen make sure the entry you want to edit is highlighted
- press "e"
- pick the line you want to edit and press "e" again
- edit the line, exit with ESC

[G-Brain]

to edit it from GRUB you don't have to use the command line

Grub e, that's what I meant. It is a command line...

[bad_brain]

yeah, but you can also press "c" for "command line", "e" is explicitly for editing the boot parameters...

[ayu]

yeah, but you can also press "c" for "command line", "e" is explicitly for editing the boot parameters...

yeah I tried that, but didn't look like the right parameter, was something along the lines of "hd(0,0)" or something, but I'll check again

[bad_brain]

it'll display sth like:

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root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-xxx root = /dev/hda1
initdr /boot/vmlinuz-xxx

the 2nd line (kernel) is the one you're looking for...change hdx to sdx...

[ayu]

Thanks guys ^^ I went inside to edit the grub list before, but for some odd reason that I can't explain, I only noticed the line "hd(0,0" :/ ... I went in again and changed it now though, thanks =)