So now I have two UUIDs that are the same: /boot/grub# blkid /dev/sda1: LABEL="TOSHIBA SYSTEM VOLUME" UUID="E074CBD574CBAD1A" TYPE="ntfs" /dev/sda2: LABEL="SQ004585V03" UUID="4A90D31E90D30EF7" TYPE="ntfs" /dev/sda4: UUID="85251b80-f37e-4576-832b-fd73013eddbe" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" /dev/sda5: UUID="85251b80-f37e-4576-832b-fd73013eddbe" TYPE="ext3" /dev/sda6: UUID="cd3cc320-b49a-4acd-aa37-ae946b5395c3" TYPE="swap"
Another fellow recommended using: Change UUID see also man pages: uuidgen sudo tune2fs /dev/sdaX -U numbergeneratedbyuuidgen or: sudo tune2fs -U random /dev/sdaX I guess I could upgrade to grub2, but wonder if that would help get the partition stuff working... ----- Original Message ---- > From: Felix Miata <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thu, February 3, 2011 2:57:55 PM > Subject: Re: Edit grub to boot different partition of ubuntu? > > On 2011/02/03 13:04 (GMT-0800) J Fields composed: > > > So, I'm dual boot with Vista(TM) and UBUNTU(tm) and ran out of space on >Ubuntu > > partition: > > Dual boot is booting from a choice of exactly two operating systems from the >same partition. Multi boot is booting any number of operating systems greater >than one from any number of separate partitions. > > > I booted Ubuntu 10.04LTS live CD and shrank the VISTA. > > Next time use the operating system's own shrinking tool. The results from >Vista's built in resizer are generally exactly what you need. > > > It would NOT let me grow the extended partition??? > > Maybe because it would have killed the existing install on sda5, which would >have become sda6 if a new logical had been created in between. Such a process >is better left to experts. > > > So now I have: > > sda1 ntfs /media/TOSHIBA_SYSTEM_VOLUME 1.46GB > > sda2 ntfs /media/SQ004588V03 88GB > > sda4 ext3 THIS IS MY NEW PARTITION 15GB > > sda3 extended > > sda5 ext3 / THIS IS MY OLD UBUNTU partition 6GB > > sda6 linux swap >340MB > > > Then I used gparted on live CD to copy files from old partitin sda5 to sda4. > > But grub still boot to old partitiion. > > Copying files has no effect WRT what needed to be done. It's the old one > that >was and remains configured. > > > How do I change grub to work? > > Assuming the files were indeed correctly and completely copied, Grub either >needs to be installed to sda4, or if already installed to the MBR, >reconfigured >to use sda4 instead of sda5 for its files and config home. You could do that >either by booting sda5 or booting the CD, chrooting to sda4 (if it's >workable), >update Grub's config to point to sda4 (hd0,3) instead of sda5 (hd0,4), then >running update-grub to actually install it to sda4. > > > Is it grub or grub2? > > > /boot/grub$ ls > > default e2fs_stage1_5 grubenv jfs_stage1_5 menu.lst~ > > minix_stage1_5 stage1 xfs_stage1_5 > > device.map fat_stage1_5 installed-version menu.lst > > menu.lst.110201 reiserfs_stage1_5 stage2 > > Menu.lst is used by Grub Legacy (1). Grub 2 uses grub.cfg. Thus, your >installed Grub is Grub 1. > -- "How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose > understanding rather than silver." Proverbs 16:16 NKJV > > Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 > > Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Help-grub mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub > _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
