Well, Robert. I'm at a coffee shop. I also had another idea. I may just take out my hard drive from my laptop and use the external as an internal and install again, and maybe just have you walk me through it at the next meeting.
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
