On Thu 15 Mar 2012 at 16:12:04 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > I installed yet another distro yesterday (on sda7), chose not to have it > install the boot loader, exited after the install and rebooted into > Debian Sid. From the command line I updated grub.cfg via update-grub. > Rebooted again and found that Grub had written 3 lines, all the same for > the new installation (which was absolute linux by the way).
We might be able toguess the distro has something to do with Slackware but ..... the three lines? Give us a hint, please. :) > It had no trouble finding the kernel. You mean you booted into the OS? > This is what is in sda7/boot/ > boot_message.txt > config > config-huge-smp-3.2.7-smp > inside.bmp > onlyblue.bmp > README.initrd > slack.bmp > System.map > System.map-huge-smp-3.2.7-smp > tuxlogo.bmp > vmlinuz > vmlinuz-huge-smp-3.2.7-smp These are files that the distro put into /boot. Seems ok. > Any clues as to why Grub is doing what it's doing ? Doing what? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120315234049.GF4889@desktop