Multiple grub menu.lst?

[Rashkae]

Charlie Zender wrote:
> 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
> 
> 


Ok, lets try mounting sda1 to a different location..

sudo mkdir /alt_boot
sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /alt_boot

See if it's sda1 that won't mount, or something about the /boot location.