Have a look at the Grub menu.1st file. You will find a default setting area starting with the following... ## ## Start Default Options ## ## default kernel options ## default kernel options for automagic boot options
Further down is this option ## default grub root device ## e.g. groot=(hd0,0) # groot=(hd0,0) This is what the Automagic update stuff works from. I had the same problem and setting this appropriately fixed it. Regards Peter On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 22:47 +0000, J C Nash wrote: > I should have reported this before, as today was the third fix I've had > to do on one of my machines. The offending system is "Update Manager" > but bug system says that does not exist in Ubuntu! Tell it to try > Sysem/Administration/Update Manager. > > Particular machine has a PATA 120GB drive as slave on the single IDE > port and 2 SATA drives on SATA interfaces 1 and 2. I boot from SATA 1 > which seems to be assigned (hd0,0) by grub. > > The problem is that when there is a kernel image upgrade, as for example > today, all the (hd0,0) entries are changed to (hd0,1) and I get an error > 17, unable to mount partition. Hardly surprising. > > Hack is to use Knoppix and edit menu.list in /boot/grub on the drive > (Feisty creates /dev/sdb1, which is somewhat suspicious) to put back all > the (hd0,0) and all works again. > > Probably doesn't affect too many folk, but perhaps the installer could > ASK FIRST before changing something important like this. > > JN > > PS. If anyone trying to fix this needs a test, possibly they could > create a version that just saves the proposed menu.list without > replacing the current one, and I'll be happy to run such a program. I > suspect it could be difficult to debug without some machines like mine > that actually give trouble. > -- Linux-image upgrade messes up menu.1st https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84289 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
