Otavio Salvador wrote: > Can you please provide a test case were it was failing and now it's > working? >
Sure, Starting from an unpatched /usr/sbin/update-grub: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1366789 2006-12-02 12:43 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.19 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1370776 2007-02-05 12:58 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1415992 2006-12-23 16:03 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-rc1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1371384 2007-01-31 14:09 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-rc6 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo update-grub Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ... grep: /boot/config*: No such file or directory Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-rc6 Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-rc1 Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20 Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.19 Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep ^kernel /boot/grub/menu.lst kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-rc6 root=/dev/sda1 ro kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-rc1 root=/dev/sda1 ro kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20 root=/dev/sda1 ro kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.19 root=/dev/sda1 ro kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin The position of 2.6.20 in the above is wrong: 2.6.20 should be treated as newer than 2.6.20-rc*. With the patch applied: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo patch -i update-grub.patch /usr/sbin/update-grub patching file /usr/sbin/update-grub [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo update-grub Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ... grep: /boot/config*: No such file or directory Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20 Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-rc6 Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-rc1 Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.19 Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep ^kernel /boot/grub/menu.lst kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20 root=/dev/sda1 ro kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-rc6 root=/dev/sda1 ro kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-rc1 root=/dev/sda1 ro kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.19 root=/dev/sda1 ro kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin -- -- Jason Rhinelander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
