Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (904 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

¡ElCheVive! pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> 2008/3/31, Kevin Dupuy <kevindupuy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Updating my 11.0 Alpha 3 system to Factory on Wednesday, March 26th
> > rendered the system unbootable.
> >
> > Now, when booting into Factory, I get the error message:
> >
> > root (/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST9402112A_5PJ1X5AL-part5)
> >
> > Error 23: Error while parsing number
> >
> > Press any key to continue
> >
> >
> > Pressing the key brings me back to GRUB.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
>
> you'll have to change the
>
> root (/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST9402112A_5PJ1X5AL-part5)
>
> to
>
> root (hdX,Y) where:
>
> X is the number of partition, starting from 0 and Y is the partition,
> also starting from 0

"X" is the disk number starting from zero, not the partition number. "Y" 
is the partition number starting from zero.

--
Ken Schneider
SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998

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