[Bug 202009] Re: update-grub not updating menu.lst

[jim brown]

Hi just encountered a similar issue after upgrading to Natty.
The menu.lst was refusing to update (I believe I've still got grub installed not grub2) with the 11.04 kernels.
I've just backed up my menu.lst and recreated it using update-grub and new kernels appear to have been added correctly.
I've now added back in the original dual boot lines and am going to reboot.

Only noticed it after upgrade and running uname -r to install headers
and noticed that the kernel was different to headers available in
synaptic.

uname -a (running 11.04 using menu.lst before correction)
Linux brownie-safe-config 2.6.35-25-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 21 17:40:48 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Jim

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Title:
  update-grub not updating menu.lst

Status in “grub” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: grub

  Up to date hardy with grub 0.97-29ubuntu18 in a kvm virtual machine.  Running 'update-grub' results in:
  $ sudo update-grub
  Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
  Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
  Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
  Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
  Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-12-386
  Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-11-386
  Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-7-386
  Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-5-386
  Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
  Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

  But menu.lst is not updated (though the timestamp is).  It hasn't
  updated since the vmlinuz-2.6.24-7-386 kernel.

  I found this entirely odd, so I made sure to do an fsck and tried
  again before submitting.