So VERY sorry for that! I was in the middle of some further experiments and did not mean to post yet. I don't see any way to edit my post!
My entire paragraph about the hard drive being removed is false. I had meant to delete that paragraph before posting. I realized that the hard disk is currently connected and so therefore its absence was not the cause at all. I had told update-grub to install the package maintainer's version of menu.lst, then saw that two entries were missing that I wanted to keep. I copied them back into menu.lst. I ran update-grub again and got the error. My test was to reinsert/remove these two entries: The entries in menu.lst: title Mac OS X 02 1,4 v9 root (hd1,4) kernel /boot/boot_mac boot title Mac OS X 01 1,4 ch root (hd1,4) kernel /boot/boot_ch boot The first couple of times I did that, I got no error from running /sbin /update-grub while the entries were absent, but got the error when they were present. After several more tests, I seem to have come to a dead end. I can no longer reproduce the toggling of working/not-working that I was able to do a few minutes ago. Now, I do not get the error at all. I don't know what has changed. Yay!(?) I am willing to help test if anyone has suggestions. -- update-grub fails when default is "saved" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/193439 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
