grub not showing ubuntu partition

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 13 14:55:05 UTC 2010


On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Tanmoy Chatterjee
<tachchot007 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The poster assumes that Ubuntu labels its root partition "/" which
>> isn't the case, unless you applied such a label it after install.
>>
>> The proposed kernel options are unnecessary, at least to start with.
>> You might need "acpi=" or "vga=" but boot without them first and
>> forget about the "resume=" and "devfs=".
>>
>> There is no "/boot/grub/grub.conf" in Ubuntu. If you want to check a
>> grub configuration file, check "/boot/grub/grub.cfg" but keep in mind
>> that if there is an "hd(X,Y)", you should use "hd(X,Y-1)" in Fedora's
>> grub.conf.
>
> There is a file named /boot/grub/menu.lst in ubuntu. I have copied the
> first entry from there and post that on fedora /boot/grub/grub.cfg
> which is as following -
>
> "title Ubuntu 9.04, (kernel 2.6.28-19-generic)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-19-generic
> root=UUID=e9918b34-80aa-4214-bd63-6b46b339005c ro quiet splash
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-19-generic
> quiet"
> I have only replaced " root (hd0, 0)" with the uuid part.
> Since then I can usually work in my ubuntu.
> Kindly look at the link
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=251148&page=2
>
> and GIVE ME SOME SUGGESTION IF I have committed some error.

I have already given you a suggestion. You've said here and on f-users
that you can dual boot so there's no point in making any more changes.




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