Hello Morrie, On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 10:14:35 +1000, Morrie Wyatt <morrie@morrie.id.au> wrote: [snip]
Ok, let's start here. The mount points / and /home are both being mounted via their unique UUID.
The first thing to do is to confirm that the UUID and device nodes match up.
ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid should give you a list of UUIDs and show the path to the matching device node (example on next line)
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Sep 26 23:28 d7740eca-4100-41af-848d-b17aff55fe2d -> ../../sda1
This is all OK. The UUIDs all match. [snip]
Bingo! This config file is for the newer version of grub
You need to install grub2 then run grub-install (grub2 will pull in grub-common and grub-pc)
Tried that, but had to separately install grub-common and grub-pc. That process gave some feedback that some grub-legacy files existed and asked if I wanted to migrate to grub2, which I did, and then asked which drive to install grub...I chose /dev/sda, and then it went about its business. After going through the umount steps, a reboot gave the right result. My laptop boots. Great leap forward. Many thanks for your help, and to Craig, Nic and Colin for continuing to follow this saga and make helpful contributions. -- Regards, Terry Duell