Grub boot confusion

[Karl Larsen]

Keith Clark wrote:
> Mark Haney 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.
>>>     
>>
>>  
>>> Any ways to correct these?
>>>     
>>
>> I am not sure I understand your setup.  You say you were updating 
>> just fine, but the system was updating the wrong menu.lst file?  Do 
>> you have /another/ Ubuntu install on this system?  I fail to see how 
>> you could have two otherwise.  I could be wrong on that though.  Is 
>> it possible that the new boot setup is booting to another Ubuntu 
>> instance altogether?
>>
>> I need more info....
>>
>>
>>   
> Only one Ubuntu installation.  Three hard drives.  Two are bootable 
> and it was booting from one drive, but Ubuntu was updating the grub 
> from the second drive.
    OK stop here. You have only one Ubuntu installed but you have 3 hard 
drives and one of the hard drives without Ubuntu installed was being 
updated with kernels and other things.

    Question 1: Why do you have two grub setups? How did you do this?

    Question 2. What is on the 2 unused hard drives?


Karl



> I was then stuck at booting an old version of the kernal, but still 
> running the same installation.
>
> I've managed to repair the video driver by installing the correct 
> restricted driver, but I'm still having a problem with the sound card.
>
> Keith
>


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