Multiple grub menu.lst?

[Charlie Zender]

First, thank you for attempting to disentangle this mess I'm in.
I'd prefer to fix it, and learn something about Linux, than to do
a full backup and fresh install. But I'm prepared to do the latter
if I can't get it to boot hardy.

Charlie

 > Allright, this is interesting.  You have an entry for /boot in your
 > fstab, but it's not getting mounted (notice it's not included in the
 > mount command listing?)  So the menu.lst file you are looking at when
 > you manually view it is written directly on the root filesystem.
 > Strange that old /boot partition is not getting recognized at all.
 > Please provide the outputs of the following command.
 >
 > sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda

zender at virga:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
sudo: unable to resolve host virga

Disk /dev/sda: 98.5 GB, 98522403840 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 11978 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x41ab2316

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          31      248976   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              32       11978    95964277+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5              32       11978    95964246   8e  Linux LVM

 > And just to save an e-mail, I would also like the UUID for each
 > partition listed.
 >
 > Example: sudo vol_id /dev/sda1 | grep UUID=

zender at virga:~$ sudo vol_id /dev/sda1 | grep UUID=
sudo: unable to resolve host virga
ID_FS_UUID=b5778bca-8cc1-4494-9707-6667010847c8

zender at virga:~$ sudo vol_id /dev/sda2 | grep UUID=
sudo: unable to resolve host virga
/dev/sda2: unknown volume type

zender at virga:~$ sudo vol_id /dev/sda5 | grep UUID=
sudo: unable to resolve host virga
ID_FS_UUID=

 > And just for kicks, what happens when you try to mount boot?
 > sudo mount /boot

zender at virga:~$  sudo mount /boot
sudo: unable to resolve host virga
mount: /dev/sda1 already mounted or /boot busy


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