On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 08:27:50AM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a very strange GRUB problem, that got me totally stumped. > > My system has two disk drives, one of which with two Linux installs. > MBR of each disk has been setup from one of the two Linux installs, > and both to allow booting either Linux: > > IDE disk (MBR setup from IDE part2 (Ubuntu 8.04)) > Part1: Mint 7 (Ubuntu 9.04 based) > Part2: Ubuntu 8.04 > > SATA disk (MBR setup from IDE part1 (Mint 7)) > Part1-5: swap and user-data partitions > > Grub version of both Linux installs is 0.97. > > I have following pair of stanzas for both of Linux installs in their > respective /boot/grub/menu.lst: > > title Linux Mint 7 Gloria KDE, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic > #root (hd1,0) > uuid 3403d691-06fd-4646-840c-8f936fd99ab9 > #kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet > splash > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic > root=UUID=3403d691-06fd-4646-840c-8f936fd99ab9 ro quiet splash > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic > > title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-24-generic (on /dev/sdb2) > #root (hd1,1) > uuid 9c17f912-7f27-40c4-a8c2-141924762217 > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-24-generic > root=UUID=9c17f912-7f27-40c4-a8c2-141924762217 ro quiet splash > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-24-generic > > I stress again that pair of stanzas in question in both menu.lst files > are copies of each other. I have confirmed this by diffing them. > Does each have its own /boot directory, or do you have a /boot partition? If they are separate directories, I think each grub is looking for the kernel and initrd.img files in its own /boot directory. I notice that each stanza has "root hd(....)" commented out.
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