Is the original drive in the MSL server or the cloned one? Did you try the cloned one?
The original drive was in the server when I first saw the Kernal Panic.
So then I tried the cloned drive, thinking the original drive might have failed.
They both produce the same failure.
I decided to poke around with a G-Parted Live CD I had lying around. With the original drive installed I see:
/dev/sda of 232.83GiB
/dev/sda1 of 101.94 MiB, Marked active as "boot"
/dev/sda2 of 232.73 GiB, Marked active.
If I boot into an Ubuntu Live CD I see the same thing but I can also see that sda1 is EXT3 and sda2 is another type of file system which I am not familiar. It is something like LVMPS (it slips my mind, I am not near the machine right now)
That gives me a feeling that the drive is responding properly but if I try to mount the partition in the Ubuntu Live environment it says it is an unknown filesystem type.
I am not an expert in Linux but I know enough to hurt myself.
Do you think I should be able to mount the EXT3 partition and edit the UUID that Grub may be referencing?
Can I use any Linux Live distribution to edit Grub?
The (C)ommand Line option offered inside Grub does not seem user friendly at all and I don't think it can do much to help me.
At this point I will try anything. I do not have a regular backup to fall back on so my only other option is to rebuild the whole thing. Hindsight is 20/20.