I am purely guessing here, but grub2 may use the same notation as grub.

sda7 would be hd(0,6)
sda8 would be hd(0,7)

In this context, the 'root' would probably be the same as in grub, it
specifies the root device for -grub-'s data (usually /boot).

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Foxy <[email protected]> wrote:

>  I have Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty as my main OS, where I have upgraded GRUB to
> GRUB2. I have also installed Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic on separate partitions. I am
> trying to boot Kramic, I have a message that I need to load kernel first. It
> looks like GRUB2 cannot find kernel. Probably the problem is that I have
> /boot on a separate partition.
>
> This is my config:
>
> /boot/grub/grub.cfg (Karmic entry):
>
> menuentry "Ubuntu karmic (development branch), kernel 2.6.31-2-generic (on
> /dev/sda6)" {
>     set root=(hd0,7)
>     linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-2-generic
> root=UUID=6ad1f928-50b9-4aea-9495-95df46d08d58 ro quiet splash
>     initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-2-generic
> }
>
> /etc/fstab:
>
> # / was on /dev/sda9 during installation
> UUID=9018bfe2-9de3-4692-9883-fc2f875e6455 /               ext3    
> relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
>
> # /boot was on /dev/sda8 during installation
> UUID=c3eb67b1-7f8f-419b-a462-c79a6c76e5de /boot           ext2    relatime    
>     0       2
>
> # /home was on /dev/sda5 during installation
> UUID=4802e809-ecaa-4932-bd01-4a816c0bbd4f /home           ext3    relatime    
>     0       2
>
> # /media/test_boot was on /dev/sda7 during installation
> UUID=0c98fbe4-ed7c-4134-994a-07d49074e137 /media/test_boot ext2    relatime   
>      0       2
>
> # /test was on /dev/sda6 during installation
> UUID=6ad1f928-50b9-4aea-9495-95df46d08d58 /test           ext3    relatime    
>     0       2
>
>
>
> blkid -c /dev/null:
>
> /dev/sda2: UUID="4d5250be-75cf-4ce4-9295-ae5e2cabd441" TYPE="swap"
> /dev/sda5: UUID="4802e809-ecaa-4932-bd01-4a816c0bbd4f" TYPE="ext3" - *my 
> /home partition*
> /dev/sda6: UUID="6ad1f928-50b9-4aea-9495-95df46d08d58" TYPE="ext3" - *Karmic 
> / partition*
> /dev/sda7: UUID="0c98fbe4-ed7c-4134-994a-07d49074e137" TYPE="ext2" - *Karmic 
> /boot partition*
> /dev/sda8: UUID="c3eb67b1-7f8f-419b-a462-c79a6c76e5de" TYPE="ext2" - *Jaunty 
> /boot partition*
> /dev/sda9: UUID="9018bfe2-9de3-4692-9883-fc2f875e6455" TYPE="ext3" - *Jaunty 
> / partition*
>
>
>
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