[Solved] 11.10 doesn't see my USB printer

[David Shochat]

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Ioannis Vranos
<ioannis.vranos at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 11:09 PM, David Shochat <david.shochat at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It will see the new kernel, but it will not add it to menu.lst. See the man
>> page.
>
>
> What should I see in the man page?
>
I was referring to this (1st line in the 2nd paragraph after
"DESCRIPTION" in man update-grup):

      " After update-grub has been run for the first time, the user is
required to edit the generated menu.lst.  "

I really believed that since I had the kernel vmlinuz-3.0.0-13-generic
present in /boot, that simply running update-grub should pick it up.
But that is not what happened. There were messages that came out of
update-grub that showed that it could see 3.0.0-13 there, but after it
was done, menu.lst still did not have it. It was only once I edited as
stated above (and then run update-grub again) that I was actually able
to boot that kernel. It seems odd to me that there is no way (that I
know of) to /automatically/ populate menu.lst with the kernels that
are available in /boot. So I went back to that man page and read and
re-read the statement that I quoted above.

> May you post the contents of your text file /etc/default/grub?

I'd be glad to, but there is no such file on my system. This is
related to your subsequent question.
-- David