Can't boot Lucid after upgrade from Karmic

[Karl Larsen]

On 05/27/2010 10:56 AM, Tony Pursell wrote:
> On 28 May 2010 at 0:43, Goh Lip wrote:
>    
>> On 05/27/2010 11:49 PM, Tony Pursell wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> I tried the grub commands, but they failed. Are the GRUB2
>>> commands?  I have the old Grub which doesn't show a 'search'
>>> command in its list of available commands.
>>>        
>> Oh, you're right. It's grub-legacy then and the 'find' function is not
>> so refined, just finding the 'stage1' for booting. I now assume the
>> following and change if necessary..
>>
>> o you have the (lucid) 2.6.32-21-generic installed.
>> o you have a separate /boot partition and you know what it is (hd0,x)
>>     -note and reminder that (hd0,x) is sda(x+1)
>>     -reminder I am talking about /boot, not '/'
>>      
> /boot is not a separate partition.  It is just a directory in root.
>
>    
>>
>> At grub (legacy) prompt, please type
>> root   (hd0,x)
>> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=/dev/sda(x+1) ro single
>> initrd /initrd.img-2.6.32-21-generic
>> boot
>>
>> As an example, if your /boot is sda8, type the following....
>> root   (hd0,7)
>> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=/dev/sda8 ro single
>> initrd /initrd.img-2.6.32-21-generic
>> boot
>>
>>      
>
     Please open a Livecd, open a Terminal in it and type commands below:
> $ sudo grub
>
> and this sets up the grub window. You will see this:
>
> grub
>
> and here is what happens. First type like this:
>
> grub root(hd0,7)  (assumbing /dev/hda8)
>
> grub
>
> At the second grub type
>
> grub setup (hd0)
>
> This will print out a lot of grub things if you did it all correct. If 
> you made an error you will get an error message.
>
>     Now at the grub prompt type exit and your out of grub and in a 
> plain terminal again. It is time to try the copied system so just 
> reboot and if all is well you will reboot into the copied system.
>

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