Re: grub sees 2 out of 3 systems...lucky me

On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm@xxxxxxx> wrote:


I said before that I had made *some* progress. I took a good look at the
9.04 stanzas I had added to menu.lst and noticed there was no "root"
line specifying "(hd0,x). I added it and found *one* value of x that
initiated the boot process. My elation was short lived when it hung on
(initramfs)_. One source I found said it might be that the root
partition wasn't found. Not sure if that's the case here. Any other
possibilities?

Good start,

the line:

root (hd?,!)

is indeed needed, or Grub will not know where to look up. Of course,
given the proper location (above) it expects to find exactly the
/directory/file you stated at the next line, like:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.??-??-generic

This is the 9.04 stanza in my .menu.list file:

title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-18-generic
root (hd0,8)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.28-18-generic
root=UUID=77874663-a37d-4df7-8f24-335183e01c79 ro
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.28-18-generic

which matches the 8.04 stanzas which was autogenerated:

title Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS, kernel 2.6.24-27-generic
root (hd0,5)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.24-27-generic
root=UUID=75015d64-51cb-4975-a11f-f6ebc2d48d1f ro
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.24-27-generic
quiet

Note the absence of "/boot" in the kernel line.

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