grub sees 2 out of 3 systems...lucky me

[Karl Larsen]

On 04/18/2010 06:55 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> I was running Hardy, Jaunty, and Debian Lenny on the desktop box.
> Decided to go from Jaunty to Karmic via the upgrade route. First thing I
> noticed was Karmic's grub didn't see Hardy.
     Is the Karmic system using Grub2? I am surprised and if it is Grub2 
there is a simple way to pick up all the systems.


>   Oh, bother (paraphrased)
> said I and reinstalled Jaunty with a clean install.
     This means you used a liveCD of Jaunty and installed it in the 
same, or a different partition?


>   Now Jaunty's grub
> didn't see Hardy. Since Hardy was my workhorse I reinstalled it via a
> clean install. Now Hardy can't see Jaunty. All three Ubuntus saw Debian.
> With the Jaunty and Karmic installs I tried copying the grub stanzas for
> Hardy to the respective menu.lst files but got "files not found" (approx
> wording) when I tried booting Hardy. With Hardy I copied the Jaunty
> stanzas and got the same result when I tried to boot Jaunty.
>
> I *think* the problem may have to do with not having the right UUIDs for
> what I copied into the menu.lst files. Do UUids change on multiple
> installs of the same version?
>
> Anyone know a way out of this?
>
>    

     Please clear up my understanding of things and then either grub 1 
or grub 2 should do the trick.

73 Karl

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