Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: grub
I have a dual boot Kubuntu - Jaunty and Karmic
Jaunty runs nicely without any problems
When I installed Karmic the first time, during installation using
alternate CD, it refused to write grub to mbr, saying that it couldn't.
I tried with both options given, grub2 and grub. I also tried selecting
a partition manually and putting (hd0) which is the mbr. After 12
attempts, I exited without installing grub, it was the only way out of
the installation. On reboot, the grub2 menu appeared with only the
Karmic option.
I used the option to manually boot from Jaunty. With the
/boot/grub/grub.cfg suggesting not to edit, I used my Jaunty install
disk on rescue mode to run grub-install which correctly wrote a mbr and
I could boot either Jaunty or Karmic.
This week grub has been updated twice in Karmic and both times, installing the
updates has led to Karmic writing grub to my mbr and not allowing me to boot
Jaunty. At least now it recognizes Jaunty and adds a line the menu.cfg but it
has the wrong UUID. Selecting Jaunty at boot gives the error message 'Kernel
not found'
obviously, because it does not have the UUID of the root partition
I have Jaunty root /dev/sda5 and Jaunty /boot is /dev/sda9 - very simple
using this
Karmic can find the Jaunty kernel or the link to it but it can't boot
it. It should be able to find the right partition and boot it from the
menu list.
** Affects: grub (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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grub not adding correct uuid to grub.cfg
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/392836
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