Grub Grief aGain [SOLVED]

[Dave Howorth]

I wrote:
> So at least I now know why it isn't booting openSUSE. The next question
> is how to fix it.
> 
> Now I *know* that the opensuse partition is on a WD disk, so it seems to
> me that something within grub is significantly broken.
> 
> I'm tempted to upgrade Ubuntu from karmic to lucid. Will that upgrade
> the grub? And is this the right command sequence for a server:
> 
>  sudo apt-get install update-manager-core
>  sudo do-release-upgrade

So the good news is that I executed these commands and:
(a) they do indeed appear to be the correct commands for an upgrade, and
(b) the upgraded grub (1.78) has fixed my boot problem. Yey!

Goh Lip, Rashkae, Tom thanks for your help!

Dave