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

[Robert Holtzman]

On Sun, 2 May 2010, Goh Lip wrote:

> On 05/02/2010 04:45 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
>
> The following might explain....
>
>> o If root and UUID are both pointed to '/' instead of /boot,(but your
>> (hd0,5) is /boot, Bob, watch for it), the lines
>> 'kernel /vmlinuz ro ' and
>> 'initrd  /initrd.img' can be used
>>
>> instead of
>> 'kernel  /vmlinuz-2.6.28-18-generic' and
>> 'initrd        /initrd.img-2.6.28-18-generic'
>>
>> as the former refer to the syslinks in '/'
>> and the latter refer to the actual kernel and initrd.img in /boot.

Am I misreading this or did you get "former" and "latter" interchanged 
in that last line?

Also, since there is more than one kernel and image, wouldn't the 
entire designation have to be shown, ie /vmlinuz-2.6.28-18-generic and 
/initrd.img-2.6.28-18-generic?

>
> I append below the last entry from my hardy both from the menu.lst
> and the current entry from the grub.cfg, also from hardy.

>
> title		Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.24-24-generic
> root		(hd0,7)
> kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-24-generic
> root=UUID=ac709ece-0f4d-4845-8b47-508030ceeb00 ro quiet splash
> initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-24-generic
> quiet

Just tried adding /boot to the kernel and initrd lines with no other 
changes. Before I did that the boot sequence would start and hang with
(initramfs)_. Afterward it went right back to "files not found" error.
Deleted /boot from the two lines and it went back to initiating the boot
sequence and hanging up. Did I leave something out?

Unless you (or anyone else on the list) have any ideas, words of wisdom, 
stray thoughts I may try the M$fix and reinstall 9.04, maybe running 
update-grub from the live CD.

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