Your changing (hd0,?) in the wrong place. Look a little higher up in the menu.lst file.
The entries you are changing are regenerated every time update-grub is run. On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 09:28:13PM +0000, Bernard Boudet wrote: > Package: grub > Version: 0.97-23 > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks the whole system > > > My /boot partition is on /dev/hda11, so in menu.lst it says: root (hd0,11) > > update-grub trashes that and resets each case to: root (hd0,0) > > This happens whenever a new kernel is installed and it leaves the system > unbootable. My workaround is to manually edit > menu.lst after each time a new kernel is installed and before rebooting. > > > baron:/boot/grub# grep -v -e '^$' -e '^#' menu.lst > default 0 > timeout 5 > color cyan/blue white/blue > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18.baron.20070221.0915 > root (hd0,11) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18.baron.20070221.0915 root=/dev/hda1 ro > initrd /initrd.img-2.6.18.baron.20070221.0915 > savedefault > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18.baron.20070221.0915 > (single-user mode) > root (hd0,11) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18.baron.20070221.0915 root=/dev/hda1 ro single > initrd /initrd.img-2.6.18.baron.20070221.0915 > savedefault > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-custom.01 > root (hd0,11) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-custom.01 root=/dev/hda1 ro > initrd /initrd.img-2.6.18-custom.01 > savedefault > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-custom.01 (single-user mode) > root (hd0,11) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-custom.01 root=/dev/hda1 ro single > initrd /initrd.img-2.6.18-custom.01 > savedefault > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-686 > root (hd0,11) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-3-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro > initrd /initrd.img-2.6.18-3-686 > savedefault > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-686 (single-user mode) > root (hd0,11) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-3-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro single > initrd /initrd.img-2.6.18-3-686 > savedefault > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.17-2-686 > root (hd0,11) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-2-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro > initrd /initrd.img-2.6.17-2-686 > savedefault > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.17-2-686 (single-user mode) > root (hd0,11) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-2-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro single > initrd /initrd.img-2.6.17-2-686 > savedefault > baron:/boot/grub# cp menu.lst menu.lst.save > baron:/boot/grub# update-grub > Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub > Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default > Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst > Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ... > Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.18.baron.20070221.0915 > Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.18-custom.01 > Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.18-3-686 > Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.17-2-686 > Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done > > baron:/boot/grub# diff menu.lst.save menu.lst > 119c119 > < root (hd0,11) > --- > > root (hd0,0) > 125c125 > < root (hd0,11) > --- > > root (hd0,0) > 131c131 > < root (hd0,11) > --- > > root (hd0,0) > 137c137 > < root (hd0,11) > --- > > root (hd0,0) > 143c143 > < root (hd0,11) > --- > > root (hd0,0) > 149c149 > < root (hd0,11) > --- > > root (hd0,0) > 155c155 > < root (hd0,11) > --- > > root (hd0,0) > 161c161 > < root (hd0,11) > --- > > root (hd0,0) > > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 4.0 > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.baron.20070221.0915 > Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > > Versions of packages grub depends on: > ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries > ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal > hand > > grub recommends no packages. > > -- no debconf information > > > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-grub-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grub-devel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
