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

[Goh Lip]

On 04/30/2010 05:47 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Robert Holtzman<holtzm at cox.net>  wrote:


>>
>> kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.??-??-generic
>
> This is the 9.04 stanza in my .menu.list file:
>
> title		Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-18-generic
> root            (hd0,8)
> kernel		/vmlinuz-2.6.28-18-generic
>                   root=UUID=77874663-a37d-4df7-8f24-335183e01c79 ro
> initrd		/initrd.img-2.6.28-18-generic
>
> which matches the 8.04 stanzas which was autogenerated:
>
> title		Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS, kernel 2.6.24-27-generic
> root		(hd0,5)
> kernel		/vmlinuz-2.6.24-27-generic
>                   root=UUID=75015d64-51cb-4975-a11f-f6ebc2d48d1f ro
> initrd		/initrd.img-2.6.24-27-generic
> quiet
>
> Note the absence of "/boot" in the kernel line.
>



Yes, but why? Is (hd0,5) the /boot partition and separate from the / 
partition? And the UUID refers to /boot partition and not the / partition?

If there is no separate /boot partition, the /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.xxx and 
/boot/initrd.img should be there.

Regards - Goh Lip