Most of it is Greek to me. I tried some searching and suggested solutions, but grub has the right UUID when compared to the UUID for the partition, so I am a bit at a loss. I can't see why it does not find the kernel and spouts out an error for two partitions and not for the rest.
Roy Using Kubuntu 10.10, 64-bit Location: Canada On 5 March 2011 12:38, Joan Leach <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I just highlighted and pasted "UUID Problem" into Google and there were > some solved hits there. BackTrack, I think, and Ubuntu was mentioned, anyway > good reading... > > Joan in Reno, just trying to help... > > --- On Sat, 3/5/11, Roy <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Roy <[email protected]> > Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] UUID problem > To: [email protected] > Date: Saturday, March 5, 2011, 8:53 AM > > > > > I have a 500 GB hard drive that I use to install distros for testing > > purposes. I am having trouble with two partitions. I have Fedora 14, > > LMDE, OpenSuSE 11.4 and Ubuntu Natty installed. I have grub written to > > the drive (sdg) MBR and not the MBR of sda. Here is the problem, > > Fedora and LMDE load fine, but openSuSE and Natty do not. I get an > > error there is no string-of-alphanumerics for the UUID and it can't > > find the kernel. These are new partitions and can't understand why the > > UUIDs would mess up. > > I have tried two grubs, one generated by Kubuntu on sda and one > > generated by LMDE on the MBR of the drive where it is not working. > > OpenSuSE's grub is useless. It keeps on writing to sda despite my > > telling it not to and then I need to use the Kubuntu CD to fix the > > problem. Fedora uses grub legacy and does not poll the drivers for > > other kernels, so it works, but only recognises Fedora which is no > > help. I am willing to delete partitions and start over, but that has > > not worked thus far. > > How do I fix it by either fixing grub on the drives in question or > > generating a UUID that will work? I thought that Gparted would fix the > > problem, but it did not, despite destroying the partitions and > > creating new ones. The UUIDs created by Gparted are different from the > > previous ones, but they still give an error. > > Roy > > Using Kubuntu 10.10, 64-bit > > Location: Canada > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
