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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