Grub boot confusion

[Mark Haney]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Keith Clark wrote:
>> On my system, Ubuntu seems to have been updating just fine, but it was 
>> modifying the wrong menu.lst grub file, as my computer was booting 
>> from another drive.
>>
>> I finally discovered the problem and changed the boot order in my 
>> BIOS.  I was booting to kernal 2.6.24-16-generic.  Now I'm booting to 
>> kernal 2.6.24-19-386.
>
>>
>     Well the problem is, with each kernel update you got some other 
> updates that use the new kernel. I have no idea what happened to that 
> software. You have a wierd system and the update software must be confused.
> 
> Karl
> 
> 

I don't think this is the problem, if he was updating the system but the 
/kernel/ wasn't changing on boot, I would expect the problems to occur 
with the OLD kernel not the newer one.

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