Kernel Panic after Ubuntu & GRUB2 install

[MaxRabbit]

Can you see the BT partition from Ubuntu ? You should have, as well as the Windows. If yes, then try exploring the old lilo.conf, stored on BT partition, it should be still there, I suppose. I'm not sure if it helps, but may give some clues.

Thanks, but it only showed drives.

[drgr33n]

post output of

fdisk -l

Cheers

[Track404]

Not that it helps but heres mine, how ever Backtrack lies on a separate harddrive.

menuentry "Backtrack3 (on /dev/sdb1)" {
insmod ext2
set root=(hd1,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 294f31d8-364a-4e26-8d8a-01e94393e3e3
linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 vga=791

[MaxRabbit]

Dr Green,

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x92e4538c

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       12748   102398278+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2           18821       19457     5116702+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3           12749       18820    48773340    5  Extended
/dev/sda5           12749       18566    46733053+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6           18567       18820     2040223+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

Track404,
Thanks for that! But I'm afraid mine looks almost exaclty like that, except reiserfs instead of ext2. But you're proof that you can get the multi-boot working with Grub2, so I'm not going to give up

Edit: YES track, you are a genius! I noticed that you had "root=/dev/hdb1", and I had "root=current". I changed my to "root=/dev/sda2" and it booted right up perfectly! And you thought that posting that wouldn't do any good

So I'm back on the game, problem solved, thanks guys!

~MaxRabbit

[drgr33n]

I removed the search and nothing changed. Then with root=/dev/sda2 I get a message saying that the drive doesn't exist. I'm certain that it is /sda2.

I thought you had tried this and it didn't boot ??

[Track404]

Cool now all you have to do is add ( initrd /boot/initrd.gz ) to the end for the splash

[MaxRabbit]

I thought you had tried this and it didn't boot ??

Dr Green: I apologize profusely. I did not notice that the bottom line also had a "root=". So what I changed based on your suggestion was the "set root=" line. I hope you can see where I was coming from, but nevertheless I apologize many times over for not understanding your suggestion in the first place!