Re: Grub finds a distro, but messes up grub.cfg
On Thu 15 Mar 2012 at 16:12:04 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> I installed yet another distro yesterday (on sda7), chose not to have it
> install the boot loader, exited after the install and rebooted into
> Debian Sid. From the command line I updated grub.cfg via update-grub.
> Rebooted again and found that Grub had written 3 lines, all the same for
> the new installation (which was absolute linux by the way).
We might be able toguess the distro has something to do with Slackware
but ..... the three lines? Give us a hint, please. :)
> It had no trouble finding the kernel.
You mean you booted into the OS?
> This is what is in sda7/boot/
> boot_message.txt
> config
> config-huge-smp-3.2.7-smp
> inside.bmp
> onlyblue.bmp
> README.initrd
> slack.bmp
> System.map
> System.map-huge-smp-3.2.7-smp
> tuxlogo.bmp
> vmlinuz
> vmlinuz-huge-smp-3.2.7-smp
These are files that the distro put into /boot. Seems ok.
> Any clues as to why Grub is doing what it's doing ?
Doing what?
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