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ShadowKyogre

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[SOLVED] Swapped Hard Drive into another pc, complains about block ids

Reinstalling the kernel fixed this problem.

Okay, well my dad and I decided to take my hard drive, which was in a dinosaur-ish computer, and placed it inside this: http://www.emachines.com/products/produ … prod=T3656 (he preferred the dino compy since it had that ATI card at least this still has compositing)

It still has a windows hard drive, but it is running XP instead of Vista. Aside from that, here's the main concern: My Arch Linux hard drive is giving VERY strange boot errors. Below is my menu.lst file.

Grub's menu.lst:

# Config file for GRUB - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
# /boot/grub/menu.lst

# DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS 
#
#  Linux           Grub
# -------------------------
#  /dev/fd0        (fd0)
#  /dev/sda        (hd0)
#  /dev/sdb2       (hd1,1)
#  /dev/sda3       (hd0,2)
#

#  FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS
#     +-------------------------------------------------+
#          | 640x480    800x600    1024x768   1280x1024
#      ----+--------------------------------------------
#      256 | 0x301=769  0x303=771  0x305=773   0x307=775
#      32K | 0x310=784  0x313=787  0x316=790   0x319=793
#      64K | 0x311=785  0x314=788  0x317=791   0x31A=794
#      16M | 0x312=786  0x315=789  0x318=792   0x31B=795
#     +-------------------------------------------------+

# general configuration:
timeout   5
default   0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue
splashimage /grub/splash.xpm.gz

# boot sections follow
# each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
#
# TIP: If you want a 1024x768 framebuffer, add "vga=773" to your kernel line.
#
#-*

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/2af90680-3caa-4eb1-8fb4-07d5f0fdbd5c ro 5
initrd /kernel26.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/2af90680-3caa-4eb1-8fb4-07d5f0fdbd5c ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img

When I select the "Arch Linux" option, the computer tells me that it failed to parse block device ids and was unable to detect or create root device. It then takes me to a recovery command shell and it says something about klibc and echo *. When I use the fallback, I am able to login, though it complains about snd-mpu401.ko when udev is done loading.

As of now, I believe I either need to reinstall the kernel or reinstall the entire system...anyone got a clue on how to fix this besides what

Last edited by ShadowKyogre (2009-07-02 23:19:11)

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