When I installed 7.10 over 7.04, I made no changes to the partitions.
Part of the problem may be a confusion over whether to start the
partition numbering at 1 or 0. The fdisk listing is attached.
sda4 is what I called the Dell Restore partition in previous messages.
** Attachment added:
DF Morrow, can you please attach the output from: sudo fdisk -l
I do not understand why the partition numbering changed from step 4 to 7 and
why it was changed in menu.lst from step 4 to 6. You just installed 7.10 in the
same partition as 7.04, right?
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I am not sure UUID will help, because only the initrd uses UUID to find
the root partition when the kernel has booted. Grub can not use UUID
(yet).
If the partition table was changed between 7.04 and 7.10 this is really
not a bug, since grub only uses the partition numbering given to it by
the
Tormod, good point. I was thinking at cross-purposes with some other
grub-related issues I'm working on.
For this one I should have focused on the default setting of groot.
## default grub root device
# groot=(hd0,4)
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Cannot boot UBUNTU after installing 7.10 gutsy
You asked if the partition table was changed between 7.04 and 7.10. The
answer is yes and no. The sequence of events was as follows.
1. -- 7.04 installed.
2. -- Created shared extended partition between NTFS and Ubuntu
partitions using Partition Magic program to shrink NTFS to create
room.
3.
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 8497 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/8497
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 8497
grub guessed BIOS disk order incorrectly
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156476
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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 8497 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/8497
I'm not sure this is a duplicate. In bug 8497, the reported problems
all involved multiple hard disk systems where the wrong hard disk number
was assigned in menu.lst. In this case there was only one hard disk
DF Marrow, I agree. It is related to another bug I've been looking at:
Bug #108554 update leaves bootloader unable to find root partition
In your circumstances I suspect the unexpected Dell Restore primary
partition *after* the Extended partition is part of the issue. The
numbering may have got
** Changed in: grub (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: None = grub
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