Grub problems with 9.10

Neil Jensen neilevanjensen at gmail.com
Mon Jan 4 01:04:05 GMT 2010


Your welcome.  Glad to help although not too often.
On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 19:00 -0600, Tommy yeah wrote:
> 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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