On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 16:11 +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Hi you all > > I noticed this strange behaviour in grub, in etch and now in lenny. > > Every time update-grub is called, due to a kernel installation or > removal, menu.lst grows bigger. Installed kernel entries for (recovery > mode) are duplicated, same thing happened for AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST > section. > > Actually the latter problem seems to be solved after a manual removal > of AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST duplicates. > > I did a apt-get --reinstall install grub and dpkg-reconfigure grub > with no success and removing recovery mode duplicated lines does not > solve. I know I won't be installing and removing kernels every day but > I think this is worth noting.
On one machine I maintain, I have 4 kernels installed.
linux-image-2.6.18-1-k7
linux-image-2.6.18-2-k7
linux-image-2.6.18-3-k7
linux-image-2.6.18-4-k7
That means there is all four kernels installed.
And by default the grub setup for Etch and now Lenny enabled a
"recovery" mode or Single user mode as an alternative to the regular
one.
So for me I have these 9 menu selections
Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-k7
Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 (Single User Mode)
Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-k7
Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-k7 (Single User Mode)
Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-2-k7
Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-2-k7 (Single User Mode)
Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-1-k7
Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-1-k7 (Single User Mode)
memtest86+
I edited the /boot/grub/menu.lst to reflect the defaults I like rather
than what came as default. You will also note the first entry has the
"largest/newest" designation.
If you don't like the "single User/Recover mode" then edit the line
in /boot/grub/menu.lst that reads:
# alternative=true
To look like
# alternative=false
Then as root run: update-grub
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