Grub error on update

[Frank McCormick]

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On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:32:39 -0500
"Mumia W." <paduille.4062.mumia.w+nospam at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Frank McCormick wrote:
> > [...]
> >    Can you let me see your menu.lst(s) ?
> 
> It's better for you to let Grub do most of the work in creating 
> menu.lst's, but place Ubuntu's Grub in the "superblock" of its 
> partition, so you'll have two installations of Grub; let's call them A 
> and B.
> 
> "A" is in the MBR (e.g. /dev/sda) and contains two "important" boot 
> stanzas: one for Debian (/dev/sda1) and one for chainloading (/dev/sda2).
> 
> "B" is in the superblock (bootsector) of /dev/sda2, and it contains one 
> "important" boot stanza--the one for booting Ubuntu in /dev/sda2.
> 
> -----menu.lst for "A"--------
> title		Debian on /dev/sda1
> root		(hd0,0)
> kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-486 root=/dev/sda1 ro
> boot
> 
> title		Chainloading /dev/sda2 (probably Ubuntu)
> rootnoverify	(hd0,1)
> chainloader	+1
> boot
> 
> -----menu.lst of "B"--------
> title		Ubuntu on /dev/sda2
> root		(hd0,1)
> kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=/dev/sda2 ro
> boot
> 
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> 
> Do not copy those directly! Let Grub make the menu.lst files and make 
> appropriate adjustments. I could never have done it had not Grub made 
> very good template files for me.
> 
> Installing Grub to the two different locations could get tricky.
> Others on the list can help you be sure you give the right options to 
> grub-install. Although it sounds a little complicated, once it's set up 
> you don't have to worry about the two Grub installations conflicting or 
> clobbering each other. Good luck.


   I think I'll wait to see if any Grub experts can explain this whole
process!!

Thanks
Cheers



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Frank
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