Re: Grub dilemma

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 04:01:35PM +0200, Cubells wrote:
En/na Frank McCormick ha escrit:
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I am running two distributions on my machine...Sid on hda1 and another
(Ubuntu) on hda3. Grub seems to boot from hda3...as I have to copy Grubs
menu.lst to hda3 every time Sid's kernel gets updated. (I don't remember
where I installed Grub..it was a long time ago ).


No.

You have installed your ubuntu grub on the MBR, but when debian has a
kernel upgrade your ubuntu doesn't upgrade its grub configuration file
because it isn't a automagic kernel. :-)

You have to edit your grub configuration file and put something like this:

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

title Debian
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro
initrd /initrd.img
savedefault

This is for grub package /boot/grub/menu.lst. If you are installing
grub-pc, you have /boot/grub/grub.cfg

menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux" {
set root=(hd0,1)
linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro
initrd /initrd.img
}

please note (hd0,1) : larger number!!!

Osamu


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