Sorry for the dumb question, but how do you migrate to grub2? On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Colin Watson <[email protected]>wrote:
> grub2 handles configuration in a completely different way; it's > extremely unlikely that anyone would encounter this particular problem > with it. We'll still have to support grub for Karmic and probably beyond > for upgrades, so this bug is *not* closeable just because we're now > using grub2 by default, but I'm not sure that it's worth putting lots of > energy into it since we already know it's a hideous can of worms. For > 9.10 and beyond I'd advise affected users to migrate to GRUB 2. > > -- > Three-way merge issues with menu.lst file during kernel updates: "Conflicts > found! Please edit `/var/run/grub/menu.lst' and sort them out manually." > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269539 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of a duplicate bug. > > Status in “grub” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed > Status in “ucf” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed > Status in grub in Ubuntu Karmic: Confirmed > Status in ucf in Ubuntu Karmic: Confirmed > > Bug description: > Ubuntu 8.10 failed to install 2.6.27.3 kernal during update > > ProblemType: Package > Architecture: amd64 > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10 > > During a kernel upgrade, under certain conditions, if the user select "Do a > 3-way merge" for menu.lst then the following error occurs: > > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-3-generic > Running postinst hook script /sbin/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 ... > Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-3-generic > Found kernel: /boot/last-good-boot/vmlinuz > Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-2-generic > Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-5-generic > Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin > Merging changes into the new version > > Conflicts found! Please edit `/var/run/grub/menu.lst' and sort them out > manually. > The file `/var/run/grub/menu.lst.ucf-new' has a record of the failed merge > of the configuration file. > > User postinst hook script [/sbin/update-grub] exited with value 3 > dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.27-3-generic (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 3 > > > > -- Three-way merge issues with menu.lst file during kernel updates: "Conflicts found! Please edit `/var/run/grub/menu.lst' and sort them out manually." https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269539 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
