Re: Grub dilemma

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 04:01:35PM +0200, Cubells wrote:
> 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 ).
>>   
>
> 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

This is for grub package /boot/grub/menu.lst.  If you are installing
grub-pc, you have /boot/grub/grub.cfg

menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux" {
        set root=(hd0,1)
        linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro
        initrd /initrd.img
}
 
please note (hd0,1) : larger number!!!

Osamu