Changing dpkg behavior

[Tom Smith]

That's not where I would've expected to find it, but I guess it makes 
sense... Because it worked. :-D

The two options I had to edit are: kopt and groot

kopt obviously defines kernel options (mine changed from sda3 to sda2). 
groot defines the root drive and partition number (groot=(hd0,1) on my 
server).

Thanks so much for your help. It's very much appreciated!

Christofer C. Bell wrote:

> On 6/29/06, Tom Smith <tom71713-ubuntu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm using Ubuntu breezy. I needed to reorganize the filesystem so I did
>> the whole backing up thing, reconfigured the partitions, created the new
>> filesystems, restored my backups, and reconfigured grub and fstab.
>>
>> Everything works fine now except that when I add or remove a kernel (I
>> do a lot of custom kernels) it resets options in my menu.1st file that
>> breaks grub--it's setting my "root" partition back to the old setting.
>
>
> Have you modified the kopt section in /boot/grub/menu.lst to reflect
> your new root location?  This is the section of the file:
>
> ## ## Start Default Options ##
> ## default kernel options
> ## default kernel options for automagic boot options
> ## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z
> ## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted.
> ## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
> ##      kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro
> ##      kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro
> # kopt=root=/dev/sda1 ro
>
> You may need to edit that to reflect where your new root is located
> (obviously mine is /dev/sda1).
>