I need a little to a lot of help. I am somewhere in between a beginner and a novice user. So I will need very detailed instructions that require absolutely no prior knowledge to make it idiot proof.
I messed up my dual boot hard drive with trying to use the Apricorn cloning system to replace my Windows XP . I wound up having to reload Windows XP from a newly acquired replacement CD. I also had to re-install Ubuntu 9.10.
I went through several gyrations of installations and now have the following dilemma.
The grub2 dual boot screen appears and I can boot to Windows XP with no problem.
When I select any of the Linux images it says:
"error: no such device: 5e81b575-37f5-46ca-8ee9-033e71e4cd95
Press any key to continu..._"
The UUID is correct as I have verified it with a live-cd.
When I go to grub2 and attempt command line mode the screen looks like this:
sh:grub> set root=(hd0,5) sh:grub> set linux=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-22-generic root=/dev/sda5 ro sh:grub> set initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-22-generic root=/dev/sda5 ro sh:grub> boot
sh:grub> ls
(hd0) (hd0,5) (hd0,3) (hd0,2) (hd0,1) error: out of disk sh:grub>
sh:grub> ls (hd0) Device hd0: Partition table sh:grub>
sh:grub> ls (hd0,5) Partition hd0,5: Filesystem type ext2, Last modification time 2010-08-16 12:51:08 Monday, UUID 5e81b575-37f5-46ca-8ee9-033e71e4cd95
sh:grub>
sh:grub> ls (hd0,3) Partition hd0,3: Filesystem type ntfs. Label New Volume. UUID ae54aad854aaa297 sh:grub>
sh:grub> ls (hd0,2) Partition hd0,2: Filesystem type ntfs. UUID cea4a624a4a60f51
sh:grub>
sh:grub> ls (hd0,1) Partition hd0,1: Filesystem type fat, UUID 07d3-0a02 sh:grub>