problem getting grub to boot partition

[pldobs]

I had ubuntu 8.04 on sda1, I messed up my wireless network. I installed another installation of ubuntu 8.0.4 on sda6. At that point, I could boot to either sda1 or sda6 with grub. After configuring the copy on sda6 with all my files from the sda1 partition, I used gparted to copy my sda6 partition over sda1. Now grub won't boot to sda1 at all. It starts with the ubuntu splash screen and the progress bar goes back and forth for a few minutes before going to some kind of command prompt.

How do I get ubuntu on sda1 to boot?

[meierfra.]

I suspect that either menu.lst or fstab is using the wrong UUID. Or ubuntu gets confused since you have two partitions with the same UUID. Please post the output of


sudo blkid

and


sudo fdisk -l

Also mount your ubuntu sda1 partition (go to Places>Computer) and post the contents of the files "/etc/fstab" and "/boot/grub/menu.lst" from your sda1 partition. Actually from menu.lst just post the

title ubuntu...
root ...
kernel ...
initrd ...

part.

[pldobs]

Output of
sudo blkid

/dev/sda1: UUID="dde12c8e-6dd8-4032-882b-19a0e155c68e" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda2: UUID="4C5427384326FBD5" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda3: UUID="45CE-5DE4" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sda5: TYPE="swap" UUID="5864c159-eb4f-3492-7015-9a34f6a32525"
/dev/sda6: UUID="dde12c8e-6dd8-4032-882b-19a0e155c68e" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda7: TYPE="swap" UUID="f2e3f28c-7030-4650-a771-a692d5b88d0c"


Output of
sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000530dc

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 3354 26940973+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 3355 11043 61761892+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 11044 11172 1036192+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda4 11173 14593 27479182+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 14359 14593 1887606 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 11173 14323 25310344+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 14324 14358 281106 82 Linux swap / Solaris

output from
cat /boot/grub/menu.lst (Truncated)

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing
# linux installation on /dev/sda1.
title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic (on /dev/sda1)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=c016fdd6-1e9e-49fb-b2d4-5467ff5ef968 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
savedefault
boot

[meierfra.]

In menu.lst replace

root=UUID=c016fdd6-1e9e-49fb-b2d4-5467ff5ef968

by

root=/dev/sda1


Also edit both of your /etc/fstab (on sda1 and sda6)

and replace "UUID=......" by "/dev/sda1" respectively "/dev/sda6"

[pldobs]

Did it. Your solution worked perfectly.

Thanks much for your help.