Assistance needed: Unable to recover previous setup (non-data issue) GRUB+kernel +/ partition

[Vram]

On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 20:29 +0100, Sere Ciya wrote:
> Ubuntu Users, Greetings!
> 
>   ...I'd like to (politely) pick your brains.
> 
>   Not too long ago, I installed Ubuntu on a spare partition on my
>   computer.  Having been so impressed by Ubuntu -- which came with
>   full support the array of odd devices on my laptop (you all know
>   how difficult getting things to work on a laptop is) -- I 
>   permenantly removed MicrobeSnot(TM) Windows XP which I had
>   temporarily been bound to (new, unsupported hardware, remember ;)
> 
>   <praise class="prior to brain-picking">
>     o  Ubuntu is an *awesome* distribution to the fullest meaning
>        that "awesome" will permit; I hope that some of our Ubuntu
>        are reading this message I would like to forward you my
>        deepest and most sincere thanks.
>     o  A non KDE-based distribution is honestly quite refreshing.
>     o  It's Debian (made-easy) baby!!!  ...no more odd-ball,
>        non-standard, non-supported Debian installation iso's
>        for installing lvm, reiserfs, jfs...
>   </praise>
> 
>   Partition scheme on my HD (dimensions do not accurately
>   represent partition sizes):
> 
>   +-------+------+---------+-----------------------+
>   |       |      |         |+------------+--------+|
>   | /boot | swap |    /    || /win_data  | /data  ||
>   |       |      |         |+------------+--------+|
>   +-------+------+---------+-------------+---------+
> 
>   /dev/hda1:  /boot   ext2
>   /dev/hda2:  <swap>
>   /dev/hda3:  /       reiserfs
>   /dev/hda4:  <extended>
>     /dev/hda5: /win_data  vfat
>     /dev/hda6: /data      ext2
> 
>  
>   My problem:
> 
>   I installed an smp kernel via Syna.. the package installer.
>   This worked nicely, so I decided to make it the default
>   kernel on bootup.
>   I edited the /boot/grub/menu.lst, ran "grub-update"
>   (I believe) and ended up with a broken grub config.



HI

My experience with Grub..  Modify menu.lst and you don't
need to do anything else...

So you did something else..

I would just restart...

HTH

Vram