Re: grub sees 2 out of 3 systems...lucky me
- From: Robert Holtzman <holtzm@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:12:12 -0700 (MST)
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
On 04/18/2010 09:55 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
I was running Hardy, Jaunty, and Debian Lenny on the desktop box.
Decided to go from Jaunty to Karmic via the upgrade route. First thing I
noticed was Karmic's grub didn't see Hardy. Oh, bother (paraphrased)
said I and reinstalled Jaunty with a clean install. Now Jaunty's grub
didn't see Hardy. Since Hardy was my workhorse I reinstalled it via a
clean install. Now Hardy can't see Jaunty. All three Ubuntus saw Debian.
With the Jaunty and Karmic installs I tried copying the grub stanzas for
Hardy to the respective menu.lst files but got "files not found" (approx
wording) when I tried booting Hardy. With Hardy I copied the Jaunty
stanzas and got the same result when I tried to boot Jaunty.
I *think* the problem may have to do with not having the right UUIDs for
what I copied into the menu.lst files. Do UUids change on multiple
installs of the same version?
Anyone know a way out of this?
Perhaps you installed Grub2 on Karmic and formatted the new partition w/
ext4.
If this is the case I recommend checking Grub2 docs, because it has
nothing to do with Grub1.
I have never used ext4 and since Karmic was an upgrade from Jaunty, it
preserved Grub1....I think.
If I remember correctly, Grub1 (legacy) has issues with ext4 and at
least for me, Grub2 refuses to (automatically) recognize other Ubuntu
partitions.
Since you (brave heart) reinstalled Jaunty and Hardy, you have now Grub1
and although it might not recognize Karmic, some fiddling with
/boot/grub/menu.lst might restore your boot screen, at least your
releases up to Jaunty.
If you will notice in my post:
"With the Jaunty and Karmic installs I tried copying the grub stanzas
for Hardy to the respective menu.lst files but got "files not found"
(approx wording) when I tried booting Hardy. With Hardy I copied the
Jaunty stanzas and got the same result when I tried to boot Jaunty."
They all gave a "files not found" error.
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