Grub problems with 9.10

Neil Jensen neilevanjensen at gmail.com
Mon Jan 4 00:56:53 GMT 2010


Sorry I should have picked that up from your fdisk -l.  Did you go into
advanced set up when you were right at the point of accepting your
partition set up?  You need to select the partition on which you want
grub to boot from.
On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 18:45 -0600, Tommy yeah wrote:
> I think so, I'm not completely sure , I have ubuntu 8.04 on one
> partition and ubuntu 9.10 on another, sda5 and sda7 respectively, is
> that what you mean? they both have a /boot directory.
> 
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Neil Jensen <neilevanjensen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         Do you have a separate /boot partition?  This makes things a
>         little
>         different if you do. 
>         
>         On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 18:16 -0600, Tommy yeah wrote:
>         > I can't boot 9.10 right now and can't get to my ext4
>         partition from
>         > within 8.04
>         >
>         > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Neil Jensen
>         <neilevanjensen at gmail.com>
>         > wrote:
>         >         Hi Tommy,
>         >
>         >         In 9.10 menu.lst is now called grub.cfg.  I don't
>         know if that
>         >         is what
>         >         you were looking for.  That is all I know on this
>         subject.
>         >
>         >
>         >         On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 18:03 -0600, Tommy yeah wrote:
>         >         > Hi, I just installed 9.10 on my harddrive and
>         cannot figure
>         >         out how to
>         >         > get it in grub.
>         >         > I have Ubuntu 8.04 on (hd0,4) and windows vista on
>         (hd0,1).
>         >         I was
>         >         > wondering how to edit my menu.lst to have my
>         Ubuntu Studio
>         >         9.10 (which
>         >         > is on sda7) boot?
>         >         > my menu.lst in Ubuntu 8.04
>         >         > title        Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, kernel
>         2.6.24-26-generic
>         >         > root        (hd0,4)
>         >         > kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-26-generic
>         >         > root=UUID=323a4707-67ef-47d7-a4d8-730a60894419 ro
>         quiet
>         >         splash
>         >         > all_generic_ide
>         >         > initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-26-generic
>         >         > quiet
>         >         >
>         >         > title        Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, kernel
>         2.6.24-26-generic
>         >         (recovery
>         >         > mode)
>         >         > root        (hd0,4)
>         >         > kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-26-generic
>         >         > root=UUID=323a4707-67ef-47d7-a4d8-730a60894419 ro
>         single
>         >         > initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-26-generic
>         >         >
>         >         > title        Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, kernel
>         2.6.24-25-generic
>         >         > root        (hd0,4)
>         >         > kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-25-generic
>         >         > root=UUID=323a4707-67ef-47d7-a4d8-730a60894419 ro
>         quiet
>         >         splash
>         >         > all_generic_ide
>         >         > initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-25-generic
>         >         > quiet
>         >         >
>         >         > title        Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, kernel
>         2.6.24-25-generic
>         >         (recovery
>         >         > mode)
>         >         > root        (hd0,4)
>         >         > kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-25-generic
>         >         > root=UUID=323a4707-67ef-47d7-a4d8-730a60894419 ro
>         single
>         >         > initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-25-generic
>         >         >
>         >         > title        Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, kernel
>         2.6.24-24-generic
>         >         > root        (hd0,4)
>         >         > kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-24-generic
>         >         > root=UUID=323a4707-67ef-47d7-a4d8-730a60894419 ro
>         quiet
>         >         splash
>         >         > all_generic_ide
>         >         > initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-24-generic
>         >         > quiet
>         >         >
>         >         > title        Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, kernel
>         2.6.24-24-generic
>         >         (recovery
>         >         > mode)
>         >         > root        (hd0,4)
>         >         > kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-24-generic
>         >         > root=UUID=323a4707-67ef-47d7-a4d8-730a60894419 ro
>         single
>         >         > initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-24-generic
>         >         >
>         >         > title        Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, memtest86+
>         >         > root        (hd0,4)
>         >         > kernel        /boot/memtest86+.bin
>         >         > quiet
>         >         >
>         >         > ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
>         >         >
>         >         > # This is a divider, added to separate the menu
>         items below
>         >         from the
>         >         > Debian
>         >         > # ones.
>         >         > title        Other operating systems:
>         >         > root
>         >         >
>         >         >
>         >         > # This entry automatically added by the Debian
>         installer for
>         >         a
>         >         > non-linux OS
>         >         > # on /dev/sda3
>         >         > title        Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)
>         >         > root        (hd0,2)
>         >         > savedefault
>         >         > makeactive
>         >         > chainloader    +1
>         >         >
>         >         >  Here are the entries in /etc/fstab
>         >         > # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
>         >         > #
>         >         > # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>
>         >         <dump>  <pass>
>         >         > proc            /proc           proc    defaults
>                0
>         >         0
>         >         > # /dev/sda5
>         >         > UUID=323a4707-67ef-47d7-a4d8-730a60894419 /
>         >         ext3
>         >         > relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
>         >         > /dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660
>         >         user,noauto,exec,utf8 0
>         >         > 0
>         >         >
>         >         > Thankyou!!!
>         >         > Tommy in Florida
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         >
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