Grub problems with 9.10

Tommy yeah allornothin.tommy at gmail.com
Mon Jan 4 01:00:18 GMT 2010


thankyou very much for your help, I just reinstalled with advanced and got
it set up correctly, tri-booting no problem!
thanks again Neil!
Tommy

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Neil Jensen <neilevanjensen at gmail.com>wrote:

> Sorry I should have picked that up from your fdisk -l.  Did you go into
> advanced set up when you were right at the point of accepting your
> partition set up?  You need to select the partition on which you want
> grub to boot from.
> On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 18:45 -0600, Tommy yeah wrote:
> > I think so, I'm not completely sure , I have ubuntu 8.04 on one
> > partition and ubuntu 9.10 on another, sda5 and sda7 respectively, is
> > that what you mean? they both have a /boot directory.
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Neil Jensen <neilevanjensen at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >         Do you have a separate /boot partition?  This makes things a
> >         little
> >         different if you do.
> >
> >         On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 18:16 -0600, Tommy yeah wrote:
> >         > I can't boot 9.10 right now and can't get to my ext4
> >         partition from
> >         > within 8.04
> >         >
> >         > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Neil Jensen
> >         <neilevanjensen at gmail.com>
> >         > wrote:
> >         >         Hi Tommy,
> >         >
> >         >         In 9.10 menu.lst is now called grub.cfg.  I don't
> >         know if that
> >         >         is what
> >         >         you were looking for.  That is all I know on this
> >         subject.
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >         On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 18:03 -0600, Tommy yeah wrote:
> >         >         > Hi, I just installed 9.10 on my harddrive and
> >         cannot figure
> >         >         out how to
> >         >         > get it in grub.
> >         >         > I have Ubuntu 8.04 on (hd0,4) and windows vista on
> >         (hd0,1).
> >         >         I was
> >         >         > wondering how to edit my menu.lst to have my
> >         Ubuntu Studio
> >         >         9.10 (which
> >         >         > is on sda7) boot?
> >         >         > my menu.lst in Ubuntu 8.04
> >         >         > title        Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, kernel
> >         2.6.24-26-generic
> >         >         > root        (hd0,4)
> >         >         > kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-26-generic
> >         >         > root=UUID=323a4707-67ef-47d7-a4d8-730a60894419 ro
> >         quiet
> >         >         splash
> >         >         > all_generic_ide
> >         >         > initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-26-generic
> >         >         > quiet
> >         >         >
> >         >         > title        Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, kernel
> >         2.6.24-26-generic
> >         >         (recovery
> >         >         > mode)
> >         >         > root        (hd0,4)
> >         >         > kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-26-generic
> >         >         > root=UUID=323a4707-67ef-47d7-a4d8-730a60894419 ro
> >         single
> >         >         > initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-26-generic
> >         >         >
> >         >         > title        Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, kernel
> >         2.6.24-25-generic
> >         >         > root        (hd0,4)
> >         >         > kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-25-generic
> >         >         > root=UUID=323a4707-67ef-47d7-a4d8-730a60894419 ro
> >         quiet
> >         >         splash
> >         >         > all_generic_ide
> >         >         > initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-25-generic
> >         >         > quiet
> >         >         >
> >         >         > title        Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, kernel
> >         2.6.24-25-generic
> >         >         (recovery
> >         >         > mode)
> >         >         > root        (hd0,4)
> >         >         > kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-25-generic
> >         >         > root=UUID=323a4707-67ef-47d7-a4d8-730a60894419 ro
> >         single
> >         >         > initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-25-generic
> >         >         >
> >         >         > title        Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, kernel
> >         2.6.24-24-generic
> >         >         > root        (hd0,4)
> >         >         > kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-24-generic
> >         >         > root=UUID=323a4707-67ef-47d7-a4d8-730a60894419 ro
> >         quiet
> >         >         splash
> >         >         > all_generic_ide
> >         >         > initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-24-generic
> >         >         > quiet
> >         >         >
> >         >         > title        Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, kernel
> >         2.6.24-24-generic
> >         >         (recovery
> >         >         > mode)
> >         >         > root        (hd0,4)
> >         >         > kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-24-generic
> >         >         > root=UUID=323a4707-67ef-47d7-a4d8-730a60894419 ro
> >         single
> >         >         > initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-24-generic
> >         >         >
> >         >         > title        Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, memtest86+
> >         >         > root        (hd0,4)
> >         >         > kernel        /boot/memtest86+.bin
> >         >         > quiet
> >         >         >
> >         >         > ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
> >         >         >
> >         >         > # This is a divider, added to separate the menu
> >         items below
> >         >         from the
> >         >         > Debian
> >         >         > # ones.
> >         >         > title        Other operating systems:
> >         >         > root
> >         >         >
> >         >         >
> >         >         > # This entry automatically added by the Debian
> >         installer for
> >         >         a
> >         >         > non-linux OS
> >         >         > # on /dev/sda3
> >         >         > title        Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)
> >         >         > root        (hd0,2)
> >         >         > savedefault
> >         >         > makeactive
> >         >         > chainloader    +1
> >         >         >
> >         >         >  Here are the entries in /etc/fstab
> >         >         > # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> >         >         > #
> >         >         > # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>
> >         >         <dump>  <pass>
> >         >         > proc            /proc           proc    defaults
> >                0
> >         >         0
> >         >         > # /dev/sda5
> >         >         > UUID=323a4707-67ef-47d7-a4d8-730a60894419 /
> >         >         ext3
> >         >         > relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
> >         >         > /dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660
> >         >         user,noauto,exec,utf8 0
> >         >         > 0
> >         >         >
> >         >         > Thankyou!!!
> >         >         > Tommy in Florida
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >
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