HELP I destroyed my wife's computer (while upgrading to Feisty -- UUID Grub issue)

[Derek Broughton]

Chanchao wrote:

> Seems I cheered to early yesterday about how easy it is to upgrade to
> Feisty... Indeed I upgraded the Mrs's laptop but thought everything was
> well.  Serves me right.

:-)  I have the nerve to install Ubuntu on pretty well anything, but NOT my
wife's system.  She's running XP and welcome to it.
> 
> When I start it up it boots into Grub normally, but then when starting
> Ubuntu it complains about not being able to find/mount the root block
> and then dies with a kernel panic.

> So what do I do?  I tried to change from root=UUID=blabla to
> root=/dev/hda2 (I assume it's HDA2 not SDA2,

Bad assumption - it's probably sda.
-- 
derek