Not sure if this bug has expired. I am having the same problem. I have ubuntu 9.10 with grub2 installed. I later installed fedora 12 on another partition without boot loader (thus, no menu.lst to attach). When I run update-grub from ubuntu, the created entry for fedora has no initrd, as below:
menuentry "Fedora release 12 (Constantine) (on /dev/sda10)" { insmod ext2 set root=(hd0,9) search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 18a8fb38-70c6-4d7e-9c3a-737e98c472a8 linux /vmlinuz-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686.PAE root=/dev/sda10 } I had to do the custom menu, under 40_custom, in order to be able to boot fedora. Here is my 40_custom: menuentry "Fedora 12" { set root=(hd0,9) set gfxpayload=1024x768x16,1024x768 linux /vmlinuz-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686.PAE root=/dev/sda10 initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686.PAE.img } -- grub2 error detecting Fedora"initrd" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/420900 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