Looks like there are two soft-RAID drives (2 UUIDs). Your kernel will boot and will have those soft-RAIDs available right as it will be getting to "init." > > Try botting manually, byt typing everything in the prompt > > > >grub> root (hd0,2) > >error: can't find command `root'. > >grub> How about 'root=(hd0,2)' 'boot' in the GRUB shell? Look here for a short primer: https://www.chrissearle.org/2008/08/13/Booting_from_grub_shell/ Looks like you will be booting from partition 2 (hd0,1) and then will be handing the root file-system to partition 3 (hd0,2). Not sure what the (hd0,0) partition is doing. Also, 1GB for a partition that is like /boot and holds no more than 100-200MB is a waste of space. Try this and report back.