Grub boot confusion
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Fri Aug 29 20:22:51 UTC 2008
Karl Larsen wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
It is interesting how you help people on this list. This fellow said
he had 3 hard drives but only one had Ubuntu on it. But with discussion
it was obvious there HAD to be another Linux somehere.
Then I discovered sure enough there IS another Linux and a Windows.
Asked what was on the third Hard Drive and the subject dropped. I assume
the discussion got his mind working and all is fine, or he is back to
Windows :-)
Karl
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