Need Help With GRUB Entry

[newdude]

Hello peeps

I have just installed ultimate-edition-1.8-x86 to an external USB HDD
During the install i chose not to install a bootloader, as i already have a working Grub install.

What i need to know is, what do i put into my menu.lst,
so that i can boot into UE-1.8

Doing a search of the forum & Google, has so far only given this:

title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-21-generic
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-21-generic root=UUID=b7486343-0d12-4e68-b5df-104cda741b19 ro quiet splash vga=795
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-21-generic
quiet

I know that this is not for UE-1.8,
but i am intrigued by the part in the kernel line: root=UUID=blah-blah-blah-blah-blah

How do i find this out ?

Any help would be gratefully recieved.
newdude.

[Tib]

Heya Newdude!

I'm afraid I do not know how helpful you will find my reply, as I do not know Exactly how to solve your problem, but I do have some info which you may find helpful.
As for putting the OS selection into the GRUB menu, as far as I know, the vital thing you have to do, is make sure the entry points to the correct HD, and the correct Partition on the specified HD, the other info I do not believe matters (but I could be wrong).
One thing I will add, which will simplify this for you in the future, is that, I always have linux reinstall GRUB, as it won't erase my current menu entries, and it automatically inputs the correct entry for the current one for me.
Note: Reinstalling GRUB every time, is something I ONLY do with Ubuntu, if you do it with a distro such as Fedora, you will destroy the booting ability of everything on the HD (lol, I did it ).

There is a post somewhere on the forum, with instructions on how to update the GRUB menu, so that it adds entries to the menu, for whatever one you have booted up, I will try to find the post, and paste a link in here for it.


Tib

[bpollen]

A suggestion:

Boot to your 1.8 disc with your USB disk connected, drop to terminal, then follow these commands....

sudo grub

> find /boot/grub/stage1

> root (hd0,0) or whatever above command lists

> setup (hd0)

> exit (or maybe it's quit, I don't remember)

(the ">" indicates the grub prompt)

This has usually fixed grub to include my USB drives with linux installed, but it HAS failed once too.....