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
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