Re: Grub finds a distro, but messes up grub.cfg

2012-03-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:53:01 -0400, Frank wrote in message <4f628eed.3090...@videotron.ca>: > On 15/03/12 07:22 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Jo, 15 mar 12, 16:12:04, Frank McCormick wrote: > >> > >> Any clues as to why Grub is doing what it's doing ? > > > > Please post the full output of an

Re: Grub finds a distro, but messes up grub.cfg

2012-03-15 Thread Frank McCormick
On 15/03/12 10:10 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 15/03/12 09:18 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 15 Mar 2012 at 20:58:32 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: and found that Grub had written 3 lines,(into grub.cfg) all the same for the new installation (which was absolute linux by the way). Ah, I'm with you n

Re: Grub finds a distro, but messes up grub.cfg

2012-03-15 Thread Frank McCormick
On 15/03/12 09:18 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 15 Mar 2012 at 20:58:32 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: and found that Grub had written 3 lines,(into grub.cfg) all the same for the new installation (which was absolute linux by the way). Ah, I'm with you now, I think. There are three entries for Absol

Re: Grub finds a distro, but messes up grub.cfg

2012-03-15 Thread Brian
On Thu 15 Mar 2012 at 20:58:32 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > and found that Grub had written 3 lines,(into grub.cfg) all the same for > the new installation (which was absolute linux by the way). Ah, I'm with you now, I think. There are three entries for Absolute Linux in grub.cfg. I can see

Re: Grub finds a distro, but messes up grub.cfg

2012-03-15 Thread Frank McCormick
On 15/03/12 07:40 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 15 Mar 2012 at 16:12:04 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: I installed yet another distro yesterday (on sda7), chose not to have it install the boot loader, exited after the install and rebooted into Debian Sid. From the command line I updated grub.cfg via u

Re: Grub finds a distro, but messes up grub.cfg

2012-03-15 Thread Frank McCormick
On 15/03/12 07:22 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 15 mar 12, 16:12:04, Frank McCormick wrote: Any clues as to why Grub is doing what it's doing ? Please post the full output of an 'update-grub' run. Kind regards, Andrei sid:/home/frank# update-grub Generating grub.cfg ... Found background

Re: Grub finds a distro, but messes up grub.cfg

2012-03-15 Thread Brian
On Thu 15 Mar 2012 at 16:12:04 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > I installed yet another distro yesterday (on sda7), chose not to have it > install the boot loader, exited after the install and rebooted into > Debian Sid. From the command line I updated grub.cfg via update-grub. > Rebooted aga

Re: Grub finds a distro, but messes up grub.cfg

2012-03-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 15 mar 12, 16:12:04, Frank McCormick wrote: > > Any clues as to why Grub is doing what it's doing ? Please post the full output of an 'update-grub' run. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-commu