14.04

[Colin Law]

On 21 April 2014 17:13, R Kimber <richardkimber at btinternet.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 16:57:42 +0100
> Colin Law wrote:
>
>> > I'm now baffled.  I've just done
>> >  sudo update-grub
>> > and it says
>> > "Found Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (14.04) on /dev/sdd1"
>> >
>> > The problem with this is that Ubuntu root is on /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdd1
>> > is a USB drive that I use for backups and which is not normally mounted.
>>
>> There must be enough of a system on it that it looks bootable.  Unplug
>> it and run update-grub again.
>
> OK.  I get:
>
> Generating grub configuration file ...
> using custom appearance settings
> Found background image: /usr/share/backgrounds/12484570105_0824ff126b_o.jpg
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-24-generic
> Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-24-generic
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-60-generic
> Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-60-generic
> Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.elf
> Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
> done

That looks OK, 3.13.0-24 is the correct kernel version for 14.04.  Is
it working ok when you boot?
3.2 is an old kernel you have lying around.  You could remove that if
you wanted the space.

>
> No specific mention of Ubuntu 14.04LTS this time.

It would only show that if there was an additional bootable partition
with 14.04 on it.

Colin