Grub 2 in Jaunty/Karmic can break double boot configuration

Fri Oct 2 22:08:16 UTC 2009

Running Jaunty AMD64 at (hd0,8). Tried to install Karmic Beta
(sept/29) from Live CD at a new partition (hd0,0) to no avail.
Wondering about conflicts between grub and grub2 (standard at Karmic),
installed grub2 on Jaunty.

Grub2 install set boot parameter to (default) (hd0,0) and
corresponding (wrong) UUID, thus making Jaunty boot impossible.

Booted from a Live CD, fixed things up (grub2 install leaves a backup
of original menu.lst) but do not intend to test Karmic before this
issue is addressed.

This bug is already listed at Grub2 but not at Karmic.

I believe that anyone with multiple boot configuration should approach
Karmic carefully.

Unless I messed things up completely...

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