Grub error on update

[Karl Larsen]

Nils Kassube 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.
>
>
> Nils
>
>   
    Well I just got my updates from a few weeks worth and it included a 
kernel and Gutsy is up and running after a re-boot. What you say Nils is 
Frank may have put a Debian kernel in his Ubuntu? I thought he got the 
update and it didn't work after a re-boot.

Karl


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