Hi Terry,
> So what I think happens is that during an upgrade the grub tool looks
> for a menu.lst, and if it finds it, it uses it to create the boot
> order. If it doesn't, as it won't for a clean install, it creates
> /etc/default/grub from the identities of the bootable partitions and
> uses that.
>
> This machine was upgraded, the Mesh was a clean install.
Yes, AIUI the upgrade leaves you at grub 1, and doesn't update the
non-Linux code, whereas a clean install uses grub 2. Version 1 has
menu.lst, 2 has default/grub, so you need to investigate the problem on
the right machine. :-)
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2009-June/000573.html
Cheers,
Ralph.
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