Grub not properly installing.

[Tommy Trussell]

On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am installing Karmic on a desktop with two root partitions for
> different distros. Currently Jaunty is in sdb1 and Karmic is in sdb2.
> The bios is configured to boot from sdb and when installing Karmic I
> confirmed in the Advanced tab that Grub will be installed to sdb.
> However, Grub remained unchanged when installing and there is no
> option for booting from sdb2.
>
> I figured that I would edit the grub menu in sdb1/boot/grub/menu.lst
> however there is a good chance that I will be testing other distros in
> sdb1 so I do not want to rely on it. I tried reinstalling Grub from a
> LiveCD with the following command but there was no change in
> behaviour:
> sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/root /dev/sdb
>
> How does one configure Grub to use menu.lst from sdb2 instead of from sdb1?

the new grub doesn't use menu.lst -- you need to edit the information
in /etc/grub.d/ directory and/or /etc/default/grub -- see

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2