boot menu

[Tom H]

On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 1:06 AM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 08:02:25PM -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Running Ubuntu 12.04 among other distros. I had kernels all the way back
>>> to 3.2.0-23 in /boot. Ran "apt-get remove --purge" on all but the
>>> current and the previous two kernels. I watched grub.cfg being created
>>> and it showed the three correct kernels and the other distros. When I
>>> rebooted the menu showed all the kernels I had just removed. Update-grub
>>> showed the correct number of kernels.


>> Another distro must be controlling grub.
>
> Possibly but if so how come grub.conf was (supposedly) created that
> showed the correct info?

grub.cfg is just a file that's created in "/boot/grub/". If the grub
from which you're booting doesn't use it, ...


>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/files/bootinfoscript/
>
> Looks interesting. I'll try it out tomorrow.

It'll tell you from which grub you're booting.