SOLVED with the help of fezie at #grub the mess was due to the presence of menu.lst in two debian squeeze partitions. actually i didn't know that grub2 would look not just to /boot/grub/grub.cfg in karmic but also to any other menu.lst present in any hard disk in the pc!!
thanks aldo -- 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