update-grub is just a thin wrapper around grub-mkconfig, as is documented in 'man update-grub'; you can use grub-mkconfig to write the configuration file to some different place.
GRUB 1 was never really declared stable, and GRUB 2 is not yet entirely ready for a 2.0 release, hence the version number. We're going with GRUB 2 a little early for various reasons. First time Ubuntu users should not be installing Karmic right now, since it's still in development. :-) However, since you are, could you please attach /var/log/installer/syslog to this bug? That may give us a clue about what went wrong with your installation. -- 9.10 Alpha 4 has no grub.cfg after install https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417209 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
