Upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 /dev/disk/by-uuid-xxxx does not exist

[Guest]

I am running a Parallels 4.0 configuration on my Mac with Kubuntu as a Guest OS.

I was able to install Kubuntu 9.04 very easily from an "iso" using the alternative install for amd64. It worked like a champ.

However, upgrading from 9.04 to 9.10, there was a problem. I used the upgrade that upgrades internally from 9.04 to 9.10 (the one in the launch bar). The install seemed to go without a hitch. I saved my grub menu.lst file off to my home directory and the same with the /etc/fstab, incase there were problems accessing the virtual hard drive.

It appears there was. I get the infamous:

/dev/disk/by-uuid-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx does not exist. Dropping to shell.

Message. I can review the previous upgrade posts in this forum and see this has happened before.

Upgrade from8.01 to 9.04.

It appears in the previous posts GRUB overwrote the uuid and if one can fix grub install, then it works.

However, since I am using a virtual hard drive, how do I re-mount that hard drive to have access to the /boot/gurb directory?
Can anyone help me here? I'm looking forward to using my 9.10 installation......

[ukchucktown]

Re: Upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 /dev/disk/by-uuid-xxxx does not exist

No experience with Parallels. If you were using VirtualBox I could explain a possible solution that allows you to mount virtual disks on the host. In your case it might be easier to create a second virtual machine with a lightweight linux disto to repair the first one. You can mount the virtual disk from the problem machine in the new VM and fix grub that way. It's probably the easiest solution if Parallels supports multiple SATA or IDE virtual disks. It's pretty easy in VirtualBox to do something similar. I rescued a non-booting VM using a similar strategy.