[Bug 442631] Re: update-grub generates an incorrect entry

[Bryan Quigley]

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This was reported against a very old release so I'm going to close it.
If you still have the issue please reopen.

** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  update-grub generates an incorrect entry

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: grub2

  sda1 swap
  sda2 extended
  sda5 Karmic beta

  Installed Fedora 11 on sda6 (/) and sda7 (/boot) [because, by default,
  sda6 is an ext4 partition and F11 assumes grub 0.x and requires /boot
  on an ext3 partition).

  Skipped the bootloader setup when installing F11 so as to stick to
  Karmic's grub2.

  Booted into Karmic and ran update-grub, which generated the following
  entry ("GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true" set in order to file the bug):

  menuentry "Fedora release 11 (Leonidas) (on /dev/sda6)" {
         insmod ext2
         set root=(hd0,6)
         search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 4c6e1491-1374-40d4-be8b-2647c714685e
         linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i586 root=/dev/sda6
  }

  Was unable to boot into F11 and had to make three changes:
  3rd line: (hd0,6) to (hd0,7)
  4th line: deleted (had no idea what the UUID of sda7 was at the grub menu)
  5th line: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i586 to /vmlinuz-2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i586

  # lsb_release -rd
  Description:    Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
  Release:        9.10

  # apt-cache policy grub-common
  grub-common:
   Installed: 1.97~beta3-1ubuntu6
   Candidate: 1.97~beta3-1ubuntu6
   Version table:
   *** 1.97~beta3-1ubuntu6 0
         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  # apt-cache policy grub-pc
  grub-pc:
   Installed: 1.97~beta3-1ubuntu6
   Candidate: 1.97~beta3-1ubuntu6
   Version table:
   *** 1.97~beta3-1ubuntu6 0
         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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