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

[Robert Holtzman]

On Mon, 10 May 2010, Tom H wrote:

> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, 7 May 2010, Tom H wrote:

           ............snip.............

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

I just substituted "root   (hda0,8)" for the uuid line. The reason it 
wouldn't boot with the uuid line may be that grub was generated when I 
reinstalled 8.04 and it didn't recognize the uuid line (I *think*).

>
> 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...

Upon further digging it looks like the "uuid..." line was instituted 
with the 9.04 version. Prior to that it was "root    (hda0,x)".

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

Aggravating perhaps?

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