So if you aren't able to boot still now do as indicated in the Aging Technogeek post and do the following.
Find out your different UUIDs run the following in a terminal
You will get soming like this as output
/dev/sdb1: UUID="5365349a-733f-42c7-9ff3-5d8897b2aa1e" TYPE="ext4"
Copy the UUID (without the quotes) to the line in your menu.lst file that starts with kernel
Actually yuou will replace the /dev/sdb1 with the UUID
Like this. Here's your Gloria entry in the menu.lst file. You need to edit as I show in the
NOW: changes with what you got for
UUID from the command: sudo blkid output for /dev/sdb1
## ## End Default Options ##
WAS:
title Linux Mint 7 Gloria, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
quiet
NOW:
title Linux Mint 7 Gloria, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=
5365349a-733f-42c7-9ff3-5d8897b2aa1e ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
quiet
WAS:
title Linux Mint 7 Gloria, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=/dev/sdb1 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
NOW:
title Linux Mint 7 Gloria, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=
5365349a-733f-42c7-9ff3-5d8897b2aa1e ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic