Re: Grub error on update

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:00:16 +0200
Nils Kassube <kassube@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Frank McCormick wrote:
It's Gutsy and has been used since I updated it was released.
I had to change menu.lst after the last update as the machine
wouldn't boot because the old menu.lst referred to root as hda3 when
Ubuntu wanted sda3 ( it's an IDE drive ).
This is the current menu.lst.
The first items are for my Debian Sid system.

Is this the file /boot/grub/menu.lst of your Ubuntu installation or
is it from your Debian installation? There is a huge difference
because if it is from your Debian installation, the update-grub
script for Ubuntu shouldn't touch it at all. It looks like it isn't
from Ubuntu Gutsy because otherwise the kernel used in the automagic
kernel list would be 2.6.22-* not 2.6.24-*. If it is from Debian, you
would have to manage the Ubuntu part manually, and your problem
doesn't come from Ubuntu but from Debian because the Ubuntu script
wouldn't see your menu.lst.


In thinking about it..it's possible the lst came from the wrong
partition. But I know the Ubuntu lst did refer to hda3, not sda3. As I
said to Karl both lsts (the one in the Debian partition and the one in
Gutsy now both refer to the Gutsy partition via its UUID. Wish there
were a simpler way than keeping the two menus synchronized!!

Cheers
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Frank

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