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

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:

>
> I said before that I had made *some* progress. I took a good look at the
> 9.04 stanzas I had added to menu.lst and noticed there was no "root"
> line specifying "(hd0,x). I added it and found *one* value of x that
> initiated the boot process. My elation was short lived when it hung on
> (initramfs)_. One source I found said it might be that the root
> partition wasn't found. Not sure if that's the case here. Any other
> possibilities?

Good start,

the line:

root            (hd?,!)

is indeed needed, or Grub will not know where to look up. Of course,
given the proper location (above) it expects to find exactly the
/directory/file you stated at the next line, like:

kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.??-??-generic

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