missing bootmenu entries

[Robert Holtzman]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 07:44:52PM +0800, Goh Lip wrote:
> Did not reply to you earlier because I do not understand your situation 
> and I was hoping that someone else who does answer you.
> 
> On 02/09/2010 10:03 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> > Upgraded the Jaunty and Hardy kernels on my multi boot tower yesterday.
> 
> What is this multi boot tower and is there any link you can provide so I 
> can understand it? And how are the kernels upgraded (to this boot)? I 
> googled but results were zilch.
> 
> > The Jaunty upgrade offered the customary choice of grub menus.
> 
> Customary choice as in menu entries of kernels or choice to use grub2 or 
> grub-legacy? Did you do a sudo upgrade-from-legacy thingy in jaunty?
> 
> > The Hardy upgrade didn't. When I rebooted Jaunty it ran the latest kernel. Hardy
> > didn't show the 2.6.24-26 or 2.6.24-27 kernels in the boot menu. They
> > were present in the /boot/grub/menu.lst file. Looks like I've been
> > running the 2.6.24-25 kernel all this time without realizing it. Found a
> > couple of Google hits that talked about the problem but with no
> > resolution.
> >
> > Never ran into this before. Anyone have any ideas, docs, pointers?
> >
> 
> What is jaunty grub and hardy grub? (grub-install -v)
> Are there menu.lst and grub.cfg in Jaunty and Hardy? (/boot/grub/)
> What grub is set to sda (mbr)? (if this is of relevance)
> Is jaunty /boot on ext4?
> 
> Hope this is something we can resolve or at least something new I can 
> learn. Hope to hear from you but I will be away for at least 3 days from 
> saturday.

Already got it sorted out. I'm running Hardy, Jaunty, and Lenny. 
All use grub legacy. I had installed Jaunty last and elected to let it
handle the boot function. When I upgraded the Hardy kernel the new
versions never go added to Jaunty's menu.lst file. I seem to remember
that being done automatically in the past but I could be wrong. Since
the new kernel(s) weren't in Jaunty's menu.lst, I was booting into an
old kernel. The fix, of course, once I realized the problem, was to edit 
Jaunty's menu.lst.

Thanks for the reply.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
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