On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 04:01:35PM +0200, Cubells wrote: > En/na Frank McCormick ha escrit: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]