the fix doesn't seem having solved all the problems: first of all: r...@paperino:~# ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid totale 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-09-26 09:33 2a6b8793-2505-4750-966e-466cbf9c21cd -> ../../sdb7 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-09-26 09:33 337a635e-a720-44d9-84c3-67c06ceb40b1 -> ../../sdc1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-09-26 09:33 581e6572-f650-45ae-bedc-6de0ec0eaa2e -> ../../sdd1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-09-26 09:33 5d59e236-5003-4f2d-bdbc-65b4847174e4 -> ../../sdb1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-09-26 09:33 72e5dc8c-f129-437a-975f-30cef1a2bd03 -> ../../sdb5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-09-26 09:33 8aae5516-aae4-4b28-a900-17a4f46281b7 -> ../../sdb6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-09-26 09:33 91ed3b0f-1daf-46e9-b58e-2a51afe71fef -> ../../sdb2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-09-26 09:33 bb3af7ad-e381-4e61-9abf-0abc34e46f46 -> ../../sda1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-09-26 09:33 d402b8b8-727e-438e-a57d-b123605bb70d -> ../../sdb3
r...@paperino:/boot/grub# update-grub2 Generating grub.cfg ... Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-10-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-10-generic Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin Found Debian GNU/Linux (squeeze/sid) on /dev/sdb1 Found Debian GNU/Linux (squeeze/sid) on /dev/sdd1 done in the attachment you can see the actual contents of grub.cfg, here i list the main errors: menuentry "Debian Squeeze su /dev/sda1 (on /dev/sdb1) , it seems that grub2 looks into first disk mbr and uses pieces of old grub installs, as a matter of fact, less than a year ago squeeze was actually installed in sda1; menuentry "Ubuntu, Karmic (on /dev/sdb1) , the "stanza" lists the uuid for sdb1 but in the kernel line writes root in sdb6 where karmic is actually installed menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.30-1-686 (on /dev/sdd1) , yes, i have squeeze in sdd1 but ... in the search line the uuid is the one of sdd1 and in the kernel line the uuid is the one of sda1, furthermore in the line appears vga=791, where did grub get that information if not in a previous install of grub? menuentry "Debian Squeeze su /dev/sda1 (on /dev/sdd1), well in the search line the uuid is the sdd1 one, in the kernel line sda1 is listed; menuentry "Ubuntu, Karmic (on /dev/sdd1), same error than in the stanza concerning karmic living in sdb1 (see above) thanks aldo ** Attachment added: "grub.cfg" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32481527/grub.cfg -- karmic - /etc/grub.d/ contains both 30-otheros and 30_os-prober https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/433259 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
