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Now, since you encouraged me -<BR>
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When running the dist-upgrade unstable, grub, which I have installed to the partition which I use for testing things, for obvious reasons, reverts to calling the drives by the (hd0,0) &c, which should work fine.<BR>
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However, in removing all the appended lines, including UUID, the sata needs(ide1=noprobe &c) and setting them to default values, the system no longer recognises the boot partition.<BR>
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Your workaround is correct, i e, somehow boot into the system(there is a live cd from Austria that helps a lot in doing stuff this) run update, add the necessary parameters, re-install grub to the appropriate place, and go.<BR>
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Why the aptitude install erases the menu.lst in favour of a default I cannot say, but the workaround is simple.<BR>
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Thanks, Mika, as usual, since your workaround indeed worked.<BR>
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Now, of course, I can no longer figure out why udev works differently with lilo, but the exercise was fun.<BR>
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Gruesse aus NY,<BR>
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M<BR>
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