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

[Robert Holtzman]

On Fri, 7 May 2010, Tom H wrote:

> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, 5 May 2010, Tom H wrote:
>>
>>> To BH: Please download and run bootinfoscript and post the output.
>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/
>>
>> Rather than clutter the list I put it on http://pastebin.com/AFC4wLkv.
>
> You have grub 0.97 and it is controlled through your 8.04 install so I
> have looked at 8.04's menu.lst on sda6.
>
> You should be able to boot into Ubuntu 8.04 and Debian 5.0.

I can.

>
> However, the Ubuntu 9.04 entries are incorrect.
>
> The kernel lines have
> root=UUID=77874663-a37d-4df7-8f24-335183e01c79
> and should have
> root=UUID=a8006b63-16ac-4587-b3f8-5fa1091bf9e1
>
> The first 9.04 entry also has
> root            (hd0,10)
> as its root invocation and it should be
> root            (hd0,8)
> or
> uuid		77874663-a37d-4df7-8f24-335183e01c79

The (hd0,10) is from me experimenting. Forgot to change it back before I 
ran the script. The (hd0,8) entry is the only one that initiates the 
boot process but hangs up with "(initramfs)_". Searching on that turned 
up nothing useful.

The UUID entry was also from when I was experimenting. I used 
77874663-a37d-4df7-8f24-335183e01c79 before to no avail. I also tried 
copying the 9.04 entries straight out of the scripts results but that 
failed with "files not found".

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.

Prior to this I had considered switching to Debian but their list isn't 
as entertaining as this one (no Karl).

Many thanks to you and Goh. I now know a lot more about the boot process 
than I did.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
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