* Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> [110921 02:09]: > Given the grub version, it's your Wheezy install that's controlling > boot.
Thank you for noticing this. My intent was to have stable (Squeeze) controlling boot, because of the vagaries of testing. But this (Wheezy) may be better. > Why did you run "grub-install"? Since you chose not to install a > bootloader, all you needed to do was run "update-grub" in Wheezy. > > Did you just run "grub-install"? Or "grub-install /dev/sda"? (I > wouldn't have thought that "grub-install" would work. Forgive me. It was "update-grub" and not "grub-install" which I ran in Squeeze. The update process found Ubuntu, so I did not look further. > Do > grub-probe --target=fs_uuid --device /dev/sda7 > and > blkid -c /dev/null /dev/sda7 > return the same value and does it correspond to the UUID in the > "search" and "linux" lines of the Ubuntu entry in grub.cfg? For the record, here is the output from Wheezy: # update-grub Generating grub.cfg ... Found background image: /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png Found linux image? /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-1-486 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-1-486 Found Debian GNU/Linux (6.0.2) on /dev/sda5 Found Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS (10.04) on /dev/sda7 done # blkid -c /dev/null /dev/sda1: UUID=" <snip> " SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" /dev/sda3: UUID=" <snip> " TYPE="swap" /dev/sda4: UUID=" <snip> " TYPE="ext3" /dev/sda5: UUID=" <snip> " SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" /dev/sda6: UUID=" <snip> " TYPE="ext4" /dev/sda7: UUID=" <snip> " SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" # grub-probe --target=fs_uuid --device /dev/sda7 <snip> I did not type the actual UUIDs, because I am transcribing on another machine (not cutting and pasting). The UUID which blkid returns for /dev/sda7 does match the UUID returned by grub-probe. The Ubuntu entries in /boot/grub.cfg refer to /dev/sda7 rather than to the UUID. Now I would like to know why the grub boot menu has five entries for Ubuntu, and how to get rid of three or four of them... Thanks your interest and help. RLH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110921174015.gc3...@broadcaster.org