[Bug 1069470] Re: second install of quantal not reached

[Gerben]

Hi Phillip,

sda1 and sda2 are old installations (guess 12.04 and 11.04) which I keep
around for reference.

I started a Quandal installation in sdb1, and later sdc1 and sdc2.
Currently sdb1 is pointed to by the MBR used by the BIOS (sdb I guess).
If I would update sdb1's grub.cfg file the file would contain references
to sdc1 and sdc2 (as well as others) but no menu would be presented by
grub to actually access either of sdc1 or sdc2. Access to any Quantal
installation is shown as "Ubuntu" and in the background sdb1 would win
from sdc1 and sdc2 if grub.cfg was made with the installation on sdb1.

I'm currently using sdc2's grub.cfg file in scb1's /boot/grub directory.
This by the way forces me to use the enter key because grub does not
have the timeout of 10 seconds anymore because it thinks it failed the
last boot.

Probably a first try would be to de-anonymize the various Quantal
installations (e.g. in stead of Ubuntu make it Ubuntu sdb1, etc). Maybe
then the various installations can at least be selected from the grub
menu.

The MBR to be pointing to the installation of my choice would also help,
scd2 will probably become my default boot for a while.

(the timeout of 10 seconds to always work is a thing I would like to
know as well)

Greetings,

Gerben

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Title:
  second install of quantal not reached

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Two installations of Quantal, no specific /boot partition (/boot
  directory is part of private / disk).

  In trying to verify certain behaviour in a Quantal installation I
  installed a new Quantal in a different partition (scd1 as opposed to
  sdb1) and expected the MBR to use the grub in the last installation
  (since that is what I requested, install grub to the first disk). To
  my surprise the older installation is the only one reacheable. I'm not
  in a position to reach the latest installation.

  It could be that grub is listening to common names (e.g. 'Ubuntu' in
  stead of 'Ubuntu 12.04 on /dev/sd...')

  I've tried to run grub-install in the older installation, but that
  failed to detect the latest Quantal installation.

  My suspision is the MBR is not updated while installing a new version
  of Quantal. It still points to the old Quantal installation.

  The old Quantal installation does not point to the latest Quantal installation.
  The latest Quantal installation point to itself and also the older Quantal installation.

  (I'm searching for UUIDS in /boot/grub/grub.cfg in the old and new
  partitions).

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: grub2 (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Oct 21 19:10:17 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121015.2)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=linux
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: grub2
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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