Maybe someone can guide me here.
I have 2 hard disks. sda has Ubuntu Lucid with grub installed to mbr and 40_custom entries to boot the distros installed on sdb.
Newly installed Kubuntu 11.10 (replacing Ubuntu Maverick) is on sdb1 root and sdb5 home. (booted by symlink from Lucid)
Scientific Linux is on sdb6 root and sdb7 home. (booted by chainloader from Lucid)
The 40_custom file entries before installing new Kubuntu looked like this:-
In /etc/grub.d 40_custom added:
echo "Adding 40_custom menu entries." >&2
(added after the first line - "#!/bin/bash" - and before the "exec tail -n +3 $0" line.)
cat << EOF
menuentry "Ubuntu Maverick Meercat Symlink Boot" {
linux (hd1,1)/vmlinuz root=UUID=d04d3941-e565-4600-88fb-e80fc335b955 ro quiet splash
initrd (hd1,1)/initrd.img
}
EOF
cat << EOF
menuentry "Scientific linux 6" {
set root=(hd1,6)
chainloader +1
}
EOF
After install of new Kubuntu 11.10 the Ubuntu Maverick entry was replaced with one for Kubuntu as follows:
cat << EOF
menuentry "Kubuntu 11.10" {
linux (hd1,1)/vmlinuz root=0312dff4-7415-466a-9dee-3b647ae018e5 ro quiet splash
initrd (hd1,1)/initrd.img
}
EOF
Now I thought easy, just change the UUID for the newly installed Kubuntu to point to sdb1 and of course the menuentry title
However this did not work. Kernel panic on booting.The only way I can boot into Kubuntu 11.10 is from the commandline, i.e.
grub> linux (hd1,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb1
grub> initrd (hd1,1)/initrd.img
grub> boot
It could easily be that I did stupid things during the install. I chose manual install, selected sdb1, selected 'Change', selected ext4, selected / and selected format. Then selected sdb5, selected 'Change', selected ext4, selected /home and selected format. Of course selected to install mbr to sdb. The install completed without problems, so I don't really understand why I can't boot from Lucid. Maybe I should have deleted the sdb1 and sdb6 Maverick partitions instead of just reusing them for the Kubuntu install ? Boot info script can't seem to find partition #1 for /boot/grub. Any advice much appreciated.
~$ sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="c7b41922-ec1c-4be2-b757-ab5407f24fb1" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda5: UUID="1d242549-d40a-4cfb-91be-0e6b390aefdf" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda6: UUID="fd389860-8765-4fdc-bf9b-c185b2d55290" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda7: UUID="6d8289a1-9b9f-4f83-9e2d-90ec92fd6040" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="0312dff4-7415-466a-9dee-3b647ae018e5" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdb5: UUID="a9f3c222-6903-472d-a38e-7563e74c4873" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdb6: LABEL="_SL-60-x86_64-Li" UUID="253aa607-14da-439a-8421-9ebb90073eb4" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdb7: LABEL="SL6_home" UUID="d883cd82-7952-4790-ade9-b4c557a157fb" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/ramzswap0: TYPE="swap"
~$
~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 74.4 GB, 74355769344 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9039 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00073a79
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1824 14647296 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1824 9040 57962497 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1824 2073 1998848 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 2073 6936 39061504 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 6936 9040 16900096 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 150.0 GB, 150039945216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 18241 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000223d3
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 2490 19998720 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 2490 18242 126522369 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 2490 10461 64020480 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 10461 12680 17825792 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 12680 18242 44673024 83 Linux
~$
New Kubuntu's fstab..
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sdb1 during installation
UUID=0312dff4-7415-466a-9dee-3b647ae018e5 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sdb5 during installation
UUID=a9f3c222-6903-472d-a38e-7563e74c4873 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=1d242549-d40a-4cfb-91be-0e6b390aefdf none swap sw 0 0
Here the boot info script results http://sharetext.org/BS2E
EDIT. OK now. I had to delete the Maverick partions.
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