Problem with Grub installing Xubuntu 12.04

[Joep L. Blom]

On 15-05-12 19:43, NoOp wrote:

>
> Does the 'search.fs_uuid match that shown in the fstab? Example:
>
>   >  ============================= Boot Info Summary:
> ===============================
>   >
>   >   =>  Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks at
> sector 1 of
>   >      the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location
> and uses an
>   >      embedded config file:
>   >
>   >
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   >      search.fs_uuid c606c2a7-1fb1-403f-9b90-52f5f150340b root
>   >      set
>   >      prefix=($root)/boot/grub--
>
> Do the uuid's in the '"blkid" output:' section match those shown in the
> 'fstab' section?
>
> If those match, then do a search through the rest of the document for
> that specific uuid. You should then find corresponding entries in the
> grub.cfg section. Example:
>
>   >  set root='(/dev/sdb,msdos1)'
>   >  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
> c606c2a7-1fb1-403f-9b90-52f5f150340b
>   >  if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
> and
>   >  menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.38-15-generic' --class ubuntu
> --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
>   >  	recordfail
>   >  	savedefault
>   >  	set gfxpayload=$linux_gfx_mode
>   >  	insmod part_msdos
>   >  	insmod ext2
>   >  	set root='(/dev/sdb,msdos1)'
>   >  	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
> c606c2a7-1fb1-403f-9b90-52f5f150340b
>   >  	linux	/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-15-generic
> root=UUID=c606c2a7-1fb1-403f-9b90-52f5f150340b ro   quiet splash
> vt.handoff=7
>   >  	initrd	/boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-15-generic
>
>
> It might help if you can post your RESULTS.txt output to pastebin:
> http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/
> and post the url to that pastebin here.
> ...
> Gary
>
Gary,
Thanks for your reply!
I assume it's something very trivial but my knowledge of GRUB2 is 
scanty. Legacy grub was no problem but this new version is no.
I have paste the complete text of Boot Info Script here;
> http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/989766/
Hope you can find clues for me to start my wife's system, as she was 
becoming acquainted to this very new (Ubuntu!) system and now she has to 
work on her old (slower!) (Windows XP!) system.
Thanks in advance,
Joep