GRUB2

[Bruce Marshall]

On Sunday 01 November 2009, John Pierce wrote:
>  I mean to say that I am
> never taken to a grub2 menu.  I have since un-installed grub2 and
> repeated this process twice with the same result each time.
> 
> Also, I have not seen any upgrades come through the pipe line since I did
>  this.
> 

Any messages when it fails to boot??

I filed a bug quite awhile ago when I tried to add grub2 onto the legacy 
(during jaunty)

The setup changed all   menu.lst entries to have:

root   <UUID string>

instead of 

uuid  <UUID string>

The root line just doesn't work but it was easy enough to change on the fly  
EXCEPT FOR:

all entries but the  first  would have the 

root  <UUID  pointing to the kernel root uuid when it should have pointed to 
the /boot  uuid.>

the first entry was correct for the uuid.

So adding grub2  to the legacy grub was really messed up and if I recall, the 
only thing that would boot  was the original first entry, and only using the 
legacy grub.

grub sets up wrong boot situation
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/446292