Re: Grub dilemma

[Cubells <vicent@vcubells.net>]

En/na Frank McCormick ha escrit:
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> I am running two distributions on my machine...Sid on hda1 and another
> (Ubuntu) on hda3. Grub seems to boot from hda3...as I have to copy Grubs
> menu.lst to hda3 every time Sid's kernel gets updated. (I don't remember
> where I installed Grub..it was a long time ago ).
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No.

You have installed your ubuntu grub on the MBR, but when debian has a 
kernel upgrade your ubuntu doesn't upgrade its grub configuration file 
because it isn't a automagic kernel. :-)

You have to edit your grub configuration file and put something like this:

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

title        Debian
root        (hd0,0)
kernel        /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro
initrd        /initrd.img
savedefault


Then when debian upgrade its kernel, the symlink /vmlinuz point to the 
correct new kernel because kernel instal·lation update the symlink too.

Cheers