On Thursday 02 Apr 2009, Suresh Kumar wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Balachandran Sivakumar > <benignb...@gmail.com > > > wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Suresh Kumar <suresh1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:12 PM, benjamin <benjamin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Copy > > >> > > >> title openSUSE 11.0 - 2.6.25.5-1.1 > > >> root (hd0,5) > > >> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25.5-1.1-pae > > >> root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3160215AS_9RA7XBPA-part10 > > > > resume=/dev/sda8 > > > > >> splash=silent showopts vga=0x317 > > >> initrd /initrd-2.6.25.5-1.1-pae > > >> > > >> > > >> into grub.conf in Ubuntu > > > > > > do you mean into the 'menu.lst' file which is in the > > > ":/boot/grub/" directory.. ? > > > > Yes, correct. It must be in the menu.lst file > > i got the option in the boot loader as "title openSUSE 11.0 - > 2.6.25.5-1.1" > but selecting it gave me an error " Error 11 : unrecognized device > string "
That is because the UUID generated by the openSUSE installer is not recognized by the Ubuntu setup. Replace the string root=UUID-what_ever to root=/dev/sdXY where X and Y are the disk and partition numbers respectively. HTH -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
