Multiple grub menu.lst?

[Charlie Zender]

First, thank you everyone who has tried to help.
I'm in Europe and was sleeping while most posted.
Back at it now.

 > Resolve the host first:
 >
 > gksu gedit /etc/hosts
 >
 > Now edit:
 >
 > 127.0.0.1 localhost virga
 > 127.0.1.1 virga
 >
 > save. And then:
 >
 > sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Done. hostname is now resolved.

 > Now try your commands and they should work.

mount fails as before

root at virga:~# sudo mount /boot
mount: /dev/sda1 already mounted or /boot busy

 > Now, from a terminal do as Aart suggests:
 >
 > sudo update-grub

Done

System still shows the old (gutsy) kernels on the console
and boots into 2.6.22 even though /boot/grun/menu.lst has
hardy kernels.

 > And if you still have problems:
 > sudo grub
 > grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
 > grub> quit

grub could not find this:

grub>  find /boot/grub/stage1

Error 15: File not found

grub> quit

 > "grub>" is the internal grub prompt, you don't type that in.
 >
 > Note the location that find '/boot/grub/stage1' returns then quit. It
 > should look something like this:
 >
 > grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
 >  (hd0,0)
 >
 > Post the results of that *and* the results of:
 >
 > sudo fdisk -l

root at virga:~# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 98.5 GB, 98522403840 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 11978 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x41ab2316

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          31      248976   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              32       11978    95964277+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5              32       11978    95964246   8e  Linux LVM

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