From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MPeCK-0008Sk-LP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:09:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 098D3E0352; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:09:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.askja.de (mail.askja.de [83.137.103.136]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D127EE0352 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:09:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from static-87-79-89-40.netcologne.de ([87.79.89.40] helo=zone.wonkology.org) by mail.askja.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MPeCH-0008LD-CL for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:09:05 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by zone.wonkology.org with local; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:08:55 +0200 id 00011B6E.4A58AB08.00006D50 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Inconsistent mountpoint for / Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:08:49 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.28-tuxonice-r3_2; KDE/4.2.4; i686; ; ) References: <83fxd4nkf9.fsf@gmail.com> <20090711142607.0edf1ce8@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <7bef1f890907110730q41489a33x2baa918a06b7d06e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890907110730q41489a33x2baa918a06b7d06e@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200907111708.50295.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: 4017daea-2371-4a2b-9185-51704804f66c X-Archives-Hash: 27657dce74f17f555321fc354c84559d Alan E. Davis writes: > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:16:26 +1000, lngndvs@gmail.com wrote: > >> In grub, it is located first as hd1 (/dev/sdb) and then as > >> /dev/sda5. That is where I want it to be. > > > > Those are two different things. the first is GRUB's root directory, the > > place where is will find its configuration and stage files (i.e. the > > location of /boot). The root argument on the kernel line is tell the > > kernel the location of your root filesystem - /. > > I need to have the second drive (SATA #2) as the first boot drive > because that's the drive with the grub setup in the MBR, for Gentoo. Is there a reason why yo keep having grub on #2? If not, I'd just run grub, enter root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) quit , copy /boot/grub/grub.conf over and all should be fine. If you prefer to leavy it as it is: instead of using the partiton itself (like /dev/sda5) in grub.conf and fstab, you could try the /dev/disk-by- label/