Grub problems Lucid 10.04

[Goh Lip]

On 05/31/2011 11:47 PM, Tom H wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Goh Lip<g.lip at gmx.com>  wrote:
>> On 05/31/2011 09:44 PM, Joep L. Blom wrote:

>> To include new kernels...
>> sudo update-grub
>>
>> To rectify most problems...(and include new kernels)
>> sudo grub-install /dev/sda   #assuming sda#
>>


>>    Save and just to be sure, at terminal, "sudo update-initramfs"
>
> You can't just run "update-initramfs", you have to run "update-initramfs -u".
>

Good catch, Tom.

> Also, if you don't pass a "-k .." argument, only the latest kernel's
> initrd is updated.
>
> It's not clear from the OP whether it's grub1's or grub2's stage 1
> that's in the mbr. I can't think of a scenario whereby it's grub1's
> and that menu.lst isn't updated or that it's grub2 and that it's
> menu.lst that controls the grub boot menu, but I assume that it's
> possible.
>

To check this, a "grub-install -v" will show what grub is 'in charge 
now', but all the same, if grub2 is 'in charge', the above 2 commands
will resolve this and if grub-l is 'in charge', the same 2 commands or 
amending the menu.lst will also resolve this.

> As Goh says above, his suggestion should rectify your problem but
> could you post the output of boot info script to understand what's
> happened?
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/files/bootinfoscript/
>

And if problem persists, bootinfoscript above will probably show what's 
wrong and Tom will have to take over here.

Regards - Goh Lip