Fixing Grub2

[Tom H]

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I did it right and now I need to end a bug I wrote saying that
> grub2 can only see 9 partitions. It can see /dev/sda13 now and I am on it!
>
> The secret is to use  boot_info_script055.sh from sourceforge and
> read it. My problem was I could not see this 10.04 at /dev/sda13 because
> I had an error in the /boot/grub/ directory. I had both grub1 and grub2
> files in this directory. RESULTS.txt showed the problem in clear terms.
> Get the script from:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/
>
> Run it and then ponder the data it displays. I have the new 10.04 and this 10.04 from updates starting at Alpha1. I could see BOTH grub1 and grub2 control files in the /boot/grub/ directory. It confused grub2 and it did not pick it up. I saw the problem and mounted this partition to my new 10.04 and deleted the grub1 file menu.lst. Then I did
>
> sudo grub-install /dev/sda
>
> Now this /dev/sda13 partition is seen and is bootable from the grub list.

Glad it is working. I hope that the next time that are told that
filing a bug report is premature, that you will listen.