Am Freitag, den 11.09.2009, 14:15 -0500 schrieb Christopher Whaley: > Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28.15 > Performing GRUB upgrade with debian installer > > Hey Guys, > > Pardon me if I'm off on the format of this message -new to mailing > lists. > > I performed an upgrade from GRUB v. 97 to GRUB 2 today and was > initially stymied by an error the install program made in editing my > original menu.lst. > > After successfully running: > > "sudo apt-get install grub2" > > from a terminal and ignoring the prompt to make changes to the "kopt" > section (in the installer, the field meant to show my current setting > was blank - I assumed that leaving it blank and hitting enter would > cause the installer to use current UUID settings), > > I rebooted the machine and attempted to boot boot through the > chainloader to the GRUB2 image and (after restart) to windows. I also > attempted to boot from what appeared to be my old item entries for my > current install of ubuntu. All attempts were unsuccessful > > I was informed that the partitions or files did not exist. > > in the menu item "Chainload into GRUB 2" I entered the editing screen > and replaced the UUID with the drive number (hd0.4) on the "root" line > and in the "root=" section of the "kernel" line. > > That did the trick, allowing me to use the GRUB2 image to successfully > enter and boot from the GRUB2 menu. > > After booting into linux, I ran "sudo upgrade-from-boot-legacy" and > had no trouble booting with the GRUB2 boot loader on subsequent boots. > > I'm assuming that the installer added the UUIDs incorrectly into the > modified menu.lst - maybe the script failed to add "UUID=" to the > string before adding it to the "root" line of the boot items? > > This is how that menu item looks in my modified menu.lst file (actual > UUID obscured): > > title Chainload into GRUB 2 > root XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX > kernel /boot/grub/core.img > > The UUID in that section of the modified menu.lst file does match the > UUID of the partition holding the GRUB .97 files. > > Hope that helps you guys work out the kinks before people start > migrating from ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10. > I think you guys have a great product and am looking forward to > exploring the capabilities of this latest version. >
Wrong mailinglist. This is (well was) an Ubuntu specific bug. This has been fixed in karmic and I think it should be also fixed in jaunty. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
