Re: [LUG] Gutsy gibbon,installed but will not load

[Henry Bremridge <henry.bremridge@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 08:40:06PM +0100, trish cunningham wrote:
> 
> thanks,i opened a terminal and copy and pasted this 
> sudo gedit /boot/grub/grub.conf
> it asked for my password,another box came up,but it was empty,is this right,do i 
> have to add something in there.
> 
> trish
> 

I upgraded my partners machine from Feisty Fawn to Gutsy Gibbon this weekend. The 
whole thing took about 4 hours using the upgrade machine link. Given the amount of 
time it was taking I was really tempted just to blow the whole machine data off and 
start again... however her machine is dual boot Win XP and ubuntu

in looking at /boot/grub/ directory I have the following entries (type ls -laF)
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    197 2007-08-12 19:35 default
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     15 2007-08-12 19:35 device.map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   8660 2007-08-12 19:35 e2fs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   8452 2007-08-12 19:35 fat_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     15 2007-08-12 19:35 installed-version
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   9152 2007-08-12 19:35 jfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   5015 2007-10-18 19:28 menu.lst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7860 2007-08-12 19:35 minix_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  10132 2007-08-12 19:35 reiserfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    512 2007-08-12 19:35 stage1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 110132 2007-08-12 19:35 stage2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   9980 2007-08-12 19:35 xfs_stage1_5

If this machine is similar to yours then the command   
sudo gedit /boot/grub/grub.conf

is creating a new file: on my machine there is no grub.conf

The contents of menu.1st are as follows

title           Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
root            (hd0,2)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic 
root=UUID=b09867a3-2ebd-42c5-8f88-aa12db10bbac ro quiet splash
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
quiet

title           Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic (recovery mode)
root            (hd0,2)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic 
root=UUID=b09867a3-2ebd-42c5-8f88-aa12db10bbac ro single
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic

title           Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.20-16-generic
root            (hd0,2)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic 
root=UUID=b09867a3-2ebd-42c5-8f88-aa12db10bbac ro quiet splash
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-16-generic
quiet

title           Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.20-16-generic (recovery mode)
root            (hd0,2)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic 
root=UUID=b09867a3-2ebd-42c5-8f88-aa12db10bbac ro single
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-16-generic

title           Ubuntu 7.10, memtest86+
root            (hd0,2)
kernel          /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title           Other operating systems:
root


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/hda2
title           Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
root            (hd0,1)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader     +1

(END) 


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Henry
Tue Oct 23 06:52:33 BST 2007

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