Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2010-03-16 07:26, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> I notice that others had problems with grub not updating the kernel
> from linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 to linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64
> and I had this  same problem.
>
> I suspect that this is because the heuristic that dpkg or apt or aptitude update
>  is using
> finds that linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 is greater than linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd
> 64 alphabetically
> even though it is the older kernel
> and this is breaking all of your automatic grub updates done by debian packaging
> .
>
> that is the reason we are all suffering....

Interesting thought.  Does the system boot if you manually edit the 
grub config file?

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