[Bug 446292] Re: grub under karmic sets up wrong boot situation

[dino99]

outdated report & no more maintained distro; please send a new one if
that issue still exist (using ubuntu-bug)

** Changed in: grub (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  grub under karmic sets up wrong boot situation

Status in grub package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: grub

  Running grub-mkconfig  or  update-grub in karmic beta  leaves only the
  karmic partition as bootable.  Other systems such as 9.04 are found
  but the setup in  grub.cfg is wrong and they will not boot.  The
  version is kubuntu beta for   9.10

  What update-grub set up for   9.04:
  menuentry "Ubuntu, linux 2.6.28-15-generic (on /dev/sda8)" {
          insmod ext2
          set root=(hd0,8)
          search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set a7fc95c3-f9f4-477c-932a-7860ceaa19ab
          linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-15-generic root=UUID=a7fc95c3-f9f4-477c-932a-7860ceaa19ab ro splash
          initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-15-generic
  }

  Note that the --set  uuid is the SAME as the root-UUID  which is
  wrong.  Also the set root= points to partition 8 which is also wrong
  and points to the '/' partition instead of the boot partition.   Both
  the uuid and the set root are pointing to the '/' partition and this
  leads to a message of "must load linux kernel first"  when trying to
  boot this entry.

  What works after manual changes:
  menuentry "Ubuntu, linux 2.6.28-15-generic (on /dev/sda8)" {
          insmod ext2
          set root=(hd0,7)
          search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 1ad72304-03b2-41f4-bb83-9a13ec9f75a8
          linux /vmlinuz-2.6.28-15-generic root=UUID=a7fc95c3-f9f4-477c-932a-7860ceaa19ab ro splash
          initrd /initrd.img-2.6.28-15-generic
  }

  Above, the set root= now points to the /boot partition and the --set
  uuid now points also to the /boot partition.   I also removed the
  /boot/  from in front of both the kernel and initrd lines.  This may
  not be necessary but those items were not included in the entry for
  karmic which works without changes.

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