ubuntu boot problem

[Bob Hemus]

On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 11:25 -0700, Ken Moffat wrote:

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> On Sep 9, 2007, at 6:52 AM, Bill Davidson wrote:
> 
>         On 9/7/07, Bob Hemus <ol.bob at sisqtel.net> wrote:
>                 Folks, somehow I've bugered up, again.  
>                 Do I need to make a device? or a directory or ?
>                 Now that Susan is back, any help from you fine Lady or
>                 gentlemen will be
>                 greatly appreciated.
>         
>         Just one more solution, since you mentioned that you
>         repartitioned the
>         drive. The vol_id command can be used to get the UUID from a
>         partition. For example on Ubuntu the following command will
>         give the
>         UUID for hda1:
>         
>         sudo vol_id -u /dev/hda1
>         
>         You can just put that value directly into /etc/fstab where you
>         would
>         normally put /dev/hda1.
>         
>         HTH,
>         Bill
>         
> 
> There is a 'list by uuid' type of command somewhere which will show
> your devices as UUID instead of /dev/????, but I can't find the email
> or forum post right now. 
> 
> Ah, here it is:
> 
> 
> ls /dev/disk/by-uuid -alh
> 
> 
> Here is a good url:
> 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=283131
Tried that, sudo vol_id -u /dev/sda6, still need to cntl D to boot up.
Here's my fstab file, see anything haywire?
Bob

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/sda6
UUID=52bf5a96-0c2b-490f-b1bd-e3bb4675ba1e /               ext3
defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /dev/sda1
UUID=5208EE1508EDF7BD /media/sda1     ntfs
defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0       1
# /dev/sda2
UUID=0aa77836-8fd3-4896-a483-760763648472 /media/sda2     ext3
defaults        0       2
# /dev/sda5
UUID=f8365a35-a3a8-4c5f-ab41-54fbcef27acc /media/sda5     ext3
defaults        0       2
# /dev/sda7
UUID=304ff5cc-ed19-4d45-adb2-3ea9480b63e4 /media/sda7     ext3
defaults        0       2
# /dev/sdb1
UUID=c8595b4a-48a0-415a-a5ae-ffa8ec6170dd /media/sdb1     ext3
defaults        0       2
# /dev/sda3
UUID=3b1a8987-2e61-4710-933e-f5e191787dcd none            swap    sw
0       0
# /dev/sdb2
UUID=c1556658-96fc-4c92-8ce6-97f1cff3c376 none            swap    sw
0       0
/dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0