[SOLVED] Can't boot after install

I installed Archlinux using the FTP LiveCD. Everything finished good, and there were no errors. I then reboot and Grub comes up like it's supposed to. But when I try to boot into Arch it says:
Booting 'Arch Linux'
root (hd1,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/9e26f3d3-464b-4cca-9117-db1ff8v1a961 ro
Error 15: File not found
Press any key to continue...
I tried going into the Grub and changing the by-uuid to /dev/sdb1 (Which is where the root partition is) but I got the same thing.
My partition scheme is like so:
/dev/sda1 /home
/dev/sdb1 /
/dev/sdb2 swap
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks!!
Last edited by A Future Pilot (2009-08-13 14:20:59)

A Future Pilot wrote:
OK, I replaced hd(1,0) with hd(0,0) and it worked!!! I am happy to say I am typing this from my nice new Arch Linux setup, running xfce4!!!
Thanks everyone for your help!!!!
Maybe this should be documented: It is quite common that the BIOS drive order is different when booting from CD than when booting from the hard drive. Also, grub often guesses the drive order wrong. The only way to be sure is to install grub to the MBR and analyze the drives from there.
Your problem might make more sense though: As you installed grub in the MBR of the second hard drive, you probably told the BIOS to boot from the second hard drive instead of the first. This causes most (all?) BIOSes to reorder the drives so that the second hard drive appears to be the first. And GRUB only accesses the hard drive through BIOS. Linux doesn't care though, it has its own order (which might change too) and we use UUIDs to identify the drives anyway.

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