What's your schedule like tonight and do you have a spare machine? If so, we can Skype/IM/phone and I can walk you through this. As for the manual, IMHO it's just this side of worthless unless you are already intimately familiar with grub.
Regards, - Robert On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Mike Bigalke <[email protected]> wrote: > > I tried copying the 8.10 lines from sdb0 grub menu.lst to the 7.10 > menu.lst and adding root (hd0,0) to that menu but all I got was an > error. > > title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic > root (hd0,0) > <----- I added this line to conform to 7.10 > uuid 773dfc5d-50e2-41ff-856e-6792808e3d19 > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic > root=UUID=773dfc5d-50e2-41ff-856e-6792808e3d19 ro quiet splash > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic > quiet > > I don't know why there is an uuid line at all. It doesn't exist in > 7.10 but I left it there. > > title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic > root (hd0,2) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic > root=UUID=d6d52470-6775-41b9-814a-778b47ed37ba ro quiet splash > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic > quiet > > > In the meantime I'm reading the entire grub manual I snagged from the > grub site and plan on getting to know it quite well. By the next > meeting I should be an expert on grub. > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> How's the progress on this going, Mike? - Robert >> >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Mike Bigalke <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Ah... the challenge. Any help would be welcome. Especially since >>> Grub is pretty lacking on its how-tos. >> >> > >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
