--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, Roy <linuxcanuck@...> wrote:
>
> I have a 500 GB hard drive that I use to install distros for testing
> purposes. I am having trouble with two partitions. I have Fedora 14,
> LMDE, OpenSuSE 11.4 and Ubuntu Natty installed. I have grub written to
> the drive (sdg) MBR and not the MBR of sda. Here is the problem,
> Fedora and LMDE load fine, but openSuSE and Natty do not. I get an
> error there is no string-of-alphanumerics for the UUID and it can't
> find the kernel. These are new partitions and can't understand why the
> UUIDs would mess up.
>
> I have tried two grubs, one generated by Kubuntu on sda and one
> generated by LMDE on the MBR of the drive where it is not working.
> OpenSuSE's grub is useless. It keeps on writing to sda despite my
> telling it not to and then I need to use the Kubuntu CD to fix the
> problem. Fedora uses grub legacy and does not poll the drivers for
> other kernels, so it works, but only recognises Fedora which is no
> help. I am willing to delete partitions and start over, but that has
> not worked thus far.
>
> How do I fix it by either fixing grub on the drives in question or
> generating a UUID that will work? I thought that Gparted would fix the
> problem, but it did not, despite destroying the partitions and
> creating new ones. The UUIDs created by Gparted are different from the
> previous ones, but they still give an error.
>
> Roy
>
> Using Kubuntu 10.10, 64-bit
> Location: Canada
>
You do not have to use UUIDs but instead can use volume labels.
http://lissot.net/partition/ext2fs/labels.html
This is the popular method of getting out of UUID HDD hell.
It also works with hda > sda nonsense as well.
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