Comment 13 for bug 123789

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Adrian Custer (acuster) wrote :

Hey all,

I had a similar issue when trying to boot the gutsy beta. I solved the issue once I realized that the UUID used by gutsy was different than the UUID used by feisty. The command line program
  blkid
gives two different UUID's for the same partition when run in Feisty and in Gutsy. Here is the full listing, note the difference in /dev/sda6 which is the new partition for Gutsy:

Gutsy:
/dev/sda1: UUID="E854C57854C549D0" LABEL="IBM_PRELOAD" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="IBM_SERVICE" UUID="45B6-8FEF" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sda4: UUID="bb3bb05b-9edb-4686-a689-82619ab2ba3c" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda5: TYPE="swap" UUID="4a92b7f1-07fe-4e50-8554-c9b72d5b864e"
/dev/sda6: UUID="8dbd1961-f79e-403b-99ed-62f2ac2d062f" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
/dev/sda7: UUID="231f28a7-9f30-4793-94ec-da3605500015" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda8: UUID="44dde1da-315e-4887-a1aa-9b5f88903551" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda9: UUID="295ca3c1-8c2f-4f78-959e-42a50d34472b" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda10: UUID="124c8155-4955-422d-be5d-fd2ded6210ce" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda11: UUID="18d11840-838b-4fd8-89af-f9595efcf8dc" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda12: UUID="f428a4c1-16f2-4422-a006-b73a6c7a1b14" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
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Feisty:
/dev/sda1: TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="IBM_SERVICE" UUID="45B6-8FEF" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sda6: UUID="34fbcc9d-1b38-4e00-a8f9-430f186f687c" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
/dev/sda7: UUID="231f28a7-9f30-4793-94ec-da3605500015" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda11: UUID="18d11840-838b-4fd8-89af-f9595efcf8dc" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda4: UUID="bb3bb05b-9edb-4686-a689-82619ab2ba3c" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda5: UUID="4a92b7f1-07fe-4e50-8554-c9b72d5b864e" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda9: UUID="295ca3c1-8c2f-4f78-959e-42a50d34472b" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda10: UUID="124c8155-4955-422d-be5d-fd2ded6210ce" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda12: UUID="f428a4c1-16f2-4422-a006-b73a6c7a1b14" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda8: UUID="44dde1da-315e-4887-a1aa-9b5f88903551" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"

hope that helps.