GRUB having problems with my sda1 UUID

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Published on 2009-11-02T23:58:36Z Indexed on 2010/04/08 17:03 UTC
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I was having trouble trying to setup triple boot on my computer... (Take a look at this thread if you think it would help).
I ended up by having a GRUB menu that has Ubuntu entries and "Windows" entry, that calls an EasyBCD menu to choose between Windows 7 and XP.

Everything would be fine if, only if, GRUB was set up correctly.

I can't find why, but it throws me this when I try to open Ubuntu:

error photo

I've already tried to remove the menu.lst and do a grub-update, and a grub-install too.
I tried to create a symlink to /dev/sda1 at /dev/disk/by-uuid/<<uuid that is there>>, just like the other UUIDs that were there... But I couldn't find that symlink at that busybox that opened when it thrown me the error.

Any ideas?

[UPDATE]
This is the GRUB entry with problems:

title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-15-generic
uuid b1ed36e5-4d84-4eb8-86ef-6f1135ffc238
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-15-generic root=UUID=b1ed36e5-4d84-4eb8-86ef-6f1135ffc238 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-15-generic
quiet

And this my /dev/disk/by-uuid folder:

04DCBCFBDCBCE856 -> ../../sdb1 (NTFS backup disk)
4434E77734E769FE -> ../../sda4 (NTFS WinXP)
ACB09F0DB09EDCE0 -> ../../sda2 (NTFS Win7)
b5311be8-a853-4fdd-aed5-d65974b3c0c4 -> ../../sda5 (EXT4 home)
C04B-4D97 -> ../../sdc (FAT32 live-pendrive from which i'm running)
D28447F68447DB9B -> ../../sda6 (NTFS files partition)
e0e88f38-d815-423a-9d5e-64b9c74a8b92 -> ../../sda7 (swap)

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