grub sees 2 out of 3 systems...lucky me[SOLVED]

[Tom H]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 7 May 2010, Tom H wrote:
>
>> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 5 May 2010, Tom H wrote:
>>>
>>>> To BH: Please download and run bootinfoscript and post the output.
>>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/
>>>
>>> Rather than clutter the list I put it on http://pastebin.com/AFC4wLkv.
>>
>> You have grub 0.97 and it is controlled through your 8.04 install so I
>> have looked at 8.04's menu.lst on sda6.
>>
>> You should be able to boot into Ubuntu 8.04 and Debian 5.0.
>
> I can.
>
>>
>> However, the Ubuntu 9.04 entries are incorrect.
>>
>> The kernel lines have
>> root=UUID=77874663-a37d-4df7-8f24-335183e01c79
>> and should have
>> root=UUID=a8006b63-16ac-4587-b3f8-5fa1091bf9e1
>>
>> The first 9.04 entry also has
>> root            (hd0,10)
>> as its root invocation and it should be
>> root            (hd0,8)
>> or
>> uuid          77874663-a37d-4df7-8f24-335183e01c79
>
> The (hd0,10) is from me experimenting. Forgot to change it back before I
> ran the script. The (hd0,8) entry is the only one that initiates the
> boot process but hangs up with "(initramfs)_". Searching on that turned
> up nothing useful.
>
> The UUID entry was also from when I was experimenting. I used
> 77874663-a37d-4df7-8f24-335183e01c79 before to no avail. I also tried
> copying the 9.04 entries straight out of the scripts results but that
> failed with "files not found".
>
> The entries I last tried were:
>
> title           Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-18-generic
> root            (hd0,8)
> uuid            77874663-a37d-4df7-8f24-335183e01c79
> kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.28-18-generic
> root=UUID=77874663-a37d-4df7-8f24-335183e01c79 ro
> initrd          /initrd.img-2.6.28-18-generic
>
> and from sda9:
>
> title           Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-18-generic
> uuid            77874663-a37d-4df7-8f24-335183e01c79
> kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.28-18-generic
> root=UUID=a8006b63-16ac-4587-b3f8-5fa1091bf9e1 ro quiet splash
> initrd          /initrd.img-2.6.28-18-generic
> quiet
>
> I had tried both of these previously and guess what...they didn't work
> again. "files not found". This was before I received your post that
> I'm replying to now. I saw the part about using (hd0,8) for root in
> place of the uuid line. That hadn't occurred to me. I tried it and, by
> God, it worked. Still not sure why that was necessary as it worked as
> is when I first installed 9.04.
>
> Prior to this I had considered switching to Debian but their list isn't
> as entertaining as this one (no Karl).
>
> Many thanks to you and Goh. I now know a lot more about the boot process
> than I did.

You're welcome. I don't understand what you've done but am glad that
my earlier post helped in some way.

FYI, "uuid..." is a ubuntuism; AFAIK, all other distributions use
"root (hdx,y)" and would not recognize a uuid line as valid, let alone
try to interpret it. But it should work to boot a 9.04 install...

I am not sure that "entertaining" is how I would describe Karl nor
that d-u would tolerate his posts.