Grub not properly installing.

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 27 21:29:21 UTC 2009


>> 2. This is that second time in the last few days that someone on this
>> list says that Karmic does not use grub1. AFAIK, if you upgrade from
>> Jaunty to Karmic, you will still be booting through grub1 (at least as
>> of the 9.10 beta when I last upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10).

> True, but karmic will prompt update to grub2 and Dotan furthermore said

>>>>> I am installing Karmic on a desktop with two root partitions for
>>>>> different distros. Currently Jaunty is in sdb1 and Karmic is in sdb2.

> implying Karmic is a fresh / clean install.
> ( unless he installs Jaunty 2nd time to new partition to upgrade to
> Karmic :)  )

Very true. I was half-hijacking the thread to point out this
grub1/grub2 issue just in case someone googles his/her way to this
thread in a year and then asks why he/she is still booting through
grub1 after upgrading to KK.




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