ubuntu server intrepid does not boot

[Bruno Pinto]

Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:19:03 -0700
From: Thorny <thorntreehome at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: ubuntu server intrepid does not boot
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> My other suggestion about device designation in the menu.lst would
> probably be worth a try.

>After considering this further while having lunch, I doubt this, by
>itself, would help as it won't get to menu.lst if it can't find the GRUB
>MBR. Maybe you'll have to write the GRUB MBR to whichever drive is
>enumerated as hd0 in order for it to work, as long as you get consistency
>in which drive is hd0, and then use the LABEL or UUID designation of the
>IDE drive for the boot partition in menu.lst.

>You mentioned language, If you have trouble translating and find my
>suggestion unclear, I can try to explain it better or someone here may
>speak your first language and be willing to help.

I understand english perfectily but the writing isn't that good, lack of
pratice... Thanks for the concern :D

Ok, back to business, i' ve had dinner, and rested a little...

It can find grub at start up without cd, lets get to grub console and do
grub thingies :p it shows that my master boot is at hd0,1 wich should be
correct...

Editing the grub option i can see that uuid is already at use but it does
not work...

The thing that bothers me the most is

                - the fact that if i boot from cd
                - then on cd menu choose "boot from first disk"
                - it appears the grub again ( so far so good, it should amd
it does )

If i edit the options they are the same as grub without cd BUT and yes BUT
if i go grub console the system drive is hd4,1...

And if that isn't strange egnouth ( remeber that i'm still on grub after
booting from cd ) one of the first or even the first line that appears shows
that it is booting (hd0,1) ext3 bla bla bla...

This stuff kills me...

I have one of two options the way i see it:

                 - Find a way to boot grub as if it is called from
installation cd
                 - replace motherboard

I leave it to your appreciation...

If you have any doubts or anything you wanna ask please do.

Thanks for your time and knowledge
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