Mint 6 x64 won't start up with other HDD's connected (SOLVED

[Husse]

It's due to a problem with gfxgrub - solution here
http://www.linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php ... annot_boot
Debian and Ubuntu do not use gfxgrub

[Husse]

Ok I'll try
In /boot/grub/menu.lst you have a line like this
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=/dev/sda2 ro quiet splash
for each distribution installed and of course you may have something else than sda2 and the kernel version is different
In a terminal run " blkid " (I've found you don't need sudo)
Find the value that corresponds to /dev/sda2 (or whatever you have) and use the UUID you just found instead - without the quotes so that you get something like
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=db4dcb0c-02bd-4d2e-a4fa-deb420b3bfa0 ro quiet splash
Of course the UUID you find is different
To edit

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gksu gedit  /boot/grub/menu.lst 

First make a copy - you could actually do a Ctrl+A and Ctrl+C and paste the content in an empty file
The other important file - fstab - already uses UUID so it's not a problem, and you have to do this for all instances in menu.lst

[Husse]

Will that problem occur again when upgrading to another kernel version?

Good thinking - yes the line for the new kernel needs editing, but the old kernel is still there so you can boot and edit