[TriLUG] Updates installed, system won't boot now

[Brian Blater]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:11 PM,  <matt at noway2.thruhere.net> wrote:
> Brian,
>
> It has been quite a long time since I have messed with the grub
> configuration, but one thing from your message jumped out at me:
>
> "set root=(hd0,6) *I have the root partition at /dev/sda6
>> set prefix=(hd0,1)/boot/grub *I have a boot partition at /dev/sda1"
>
> I am at work and unable to easilly confirm, but if I recall correctly,
> grup partitions are 0 indexed.  In other words, your root partition would
> be (hd0,5) and boot would be (hd0,0).
>
> If you haven't yet, consider giving that a try.

Thanks Matt,

Changing those lines to be the following:

set root=(hd0,5)
set prefix=(hd0,0)/boot/grub
linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro
I now get error: unknown filesystem.

Any other thoughts?