update-grub help

Dave Howorth dhoworth at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Tue Jun 1 16:20:44 UTC 2010


Tom H wrote:
> Try:
> 
> Create a device.map in Ubuntu with the same content as the OpenSuse's
> or the equivalent /de/disk/by-uuid values and save it (for example) in
> /root rather than in /boot/grub.

I actually already tried copying the suse device.map over the ubuntu one
but it made no difference. grub still doesn't see hd6.

> Run (in Ubuntu)
> grub-setup --root-device='(hd0)' --device-map=/root/device.map /dev/sda

I'll give it a try though.

Cheers, Dave




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