Grub boot confusion

[Karl Larsen]

Keith Clark wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>> 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
>>>
>>>     
>>
>>
>>   
> 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.
    What is on the third hard drive?
>
> 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.
    Well updating Gutsy with Hardy can not cause your PCLinux to work! 
If anything it would write over all other Grub and Windows at the MBR on 
the first bootable hard drive. So this is a mystery. You must have done 
something else.

    Do you boot Windows and the other Linux?

    You said there was nothing on the other two hard drives. We know 
know different :-)

Karl

>
> 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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