Intrepid problem

[Derek Broughton]

Bill Taylor wrote:

> Steven, sudo update-grub returns;
> 
> Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
> Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
> Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found:
> /boot/grub/menu.lst Searching for splash image ... none found,
> skipping ... Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic
> Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic
> Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
> Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done
> 
> but when rebooted it is not there.

Did you check /boot/grub/menu.lst immediately after running update-grub?  
Two possibilities come to mind - neither very likely :-(

Either, /boot/grub/menu.lst is unwriteable (for a number of possible 
reasons) - so try manually adding a comment line.

Or, if it looks correct after running update-grub, then grub is actually 
looking for a menu.lst file on a different partition (which would require 
running grub-install).

Did you, at some point, switch to or from a separate boot partition?
-- 
derek