grub question / mistaken kernel?

[Anthony Baldwin]

I installed Linguas OS (PLOS based) and it re-wrote grub.
Oddly, it played nice with feisty on the other machine on which I had 
them both running,
but, on this one, something weird seems to be happening.

The new grub/menu.lst is giving this to boot the ubuntu partition:

title Kubuntu 2.6.18
kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8.tex5.lgc BOOT_IMAGE=Kubuntu 
root=/dev/hda1 splash=silent
initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd.img


Only, it's dapper, and it doesn't have 2.6.18 kernel installed.  It has 
2.6.15.
I seems that the ubuntu/dapper partition is booting of the 2.6.18 kernel 
on the second partition (linguas os).
It is successfully booting, but it is not finding certain modules 
(lib/modules/1.6.18.tex5.lgc/modeuls.dep).
Everything appears to work, except, it says it can not start the Avahi 
Daemon (dunno what that is),
and, it fails to bring up eth0.

Now, I dug up the dapper install's grub/menu.lst, and it has this:

title        Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-29-386
root        (hd0,0)
kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-29-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet splash
initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-29-386

So, I tried to add this:

title    Kubuntu, kernel 2.6.15
kernel    (hd0,0)    /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-29-386 BOOT_IMAGE=Kubuntu 
root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet splash
initrd    (hd0,0)    /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-29-386

to the new list, but that won't boot at all, saying something about 
image...I didn't quite get that error written down.

I might just have this all wrong, but, it really seems to me that I'm 
booting the first partition, the dapper system,
but using the kernel on the second partition, and, thus, stuff isn't 
working.
If I'm way off here, just smack me.

But, I don't seem to have figured out how to get grub to boot the kernel 
that IS on the first partition.

Any ideas?

Is this NOT a grub issue, but something really hosed in my Ubuntu 
install (although, it boots)?
I have not had any real major issues with ubuntu since switching over a 
year ago, so, this is kind of disappointing.
I'm sure it's something I've done, though, and not something wrong with 
ubuntu/dapper.

thanks
/tony


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Anthony Baldwin
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