Well, it looks like I shot myself in the foot good and need the assistance of a person intimately acquainted with grub.
I allowed Ubuntu to upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 on my Toshiba laptop, but something went wrong with apt's autoremove configurator and some graphics library files got removed, so that Ubuntu would NOT boot into a GUI but stayed in run level 2. I reformatted the hard drive and reinstalled Ubuntu 9.04 (with the idea in mind of updating the 9.04 with my backup disk) and everything went well. I then booted knoppix 6.01 in order to update all the folders on the harddisk (two partitions /(root) and /boot) and rebooted only to run in trouble during the boot sequence. The UUID's didn't match and the load failed, Ubuntu opening a maintenance session. (well, I had symbolically linked the wrong vmlinuz and initrd images in the root partition to the boot partition) Realizing that I needed to run "update-grub" on both the /boot partition and the / (root) partition, I rebooted knoppix and mounted them as you would expect and ran "update-grub" and the command seemed to work. However booting still fails, although grub does display all 3 initrd images, but says "file not found" after trying. Is the MBR hosed? I did follow the "fix" steps in Ubuntu, of 1. grub 2. find /boot/grub/stage1 3. root (hd0,0) (which step #2 finds) 4. setup (hd0,0) 5. reboot but no such luck. I mounted the CD run only session of Ubuntu 9.04 and tried to mount the partitions again, and run either the grub commands or the update-grub, but with no success. What am I missing? I could reformat the hard disk again and reinstall Ubuntu 9.04 but then I have a backup disk with 2 more changes in the linux kernel which will have to be updated. I really would like to get Ubuntu 9.04 updated, then allow apt to update into version 9.10 again. Any ideas? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
