Grub boot confusion

[Keith Clark]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Keith Clark wrote:
>   
>> Mark Haney wrote:
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>>> 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
>
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>> 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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>>     
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The original (incorrect) boot drive has XP and PCLinuxOS installed on 
it.  When I installed Ubuntu 7.10 onto the second hard drive, all went 
well.  It updated the correct Grub and all was well.

When things went wrong was when I upgraded to 8.04.  Things have been 
wacky ever since.  I just discovered the dual grub/boot problem yesterday.

Keith

Hard Drive arrangement:

sda
       sda1 fat32
       sda2 ntfs

hda
       hda1 ntfs
       hda2 extended
             hda5 ext2
             hda6 linux-swap
             hda7 ext2

hdd
       hdd1 ext3
       hdd2 extended
             hdd5 linux-swap

sda is the original hard drive and contains XP.  hda contains 
PCLinuxOS.  hdd contains Ubuntu 8.04.1


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