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i am running lenny. and at some point my grub started exibiting a strange problem. Grub will not display all the kernels that it finds, it only displays 2 of ...
  1. 03-26-2010 #1
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    GRUB problem

    i am running lenny. and at some point my grub started exibiting a strange problem. Grub will not display all the kernels that it finds, it only displays 2 of them out of the 5 grub was finding.

    the system is working and boots just fine.

    I attempted to install GRUB2 which went ok. since my system booted ok i removed GRUB that operation was sucessful and it deleted all the grub files that were not needed.

    but my system is still booting into grub with the same 2 kernels.

    Could someone tell me what i can do to either get grub or grub2 to work?


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    Hi and Welcome !

    Which version of GRUB are you using right now? Is it GRUB Legacy or GRUB2?
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    my:~# ls /boot
    config-2.6.26-2-686 initrd.img-2.6.30-backports.1-686 System.map-2.6.30-bpo.1-686
    config-2.6.30-backports.1-686 initrd.img-2.6.30-bpo.1-686 System.map-2.6.32-bpo.3-686
    config-2.6.30-bpo.1-686 initrd.img-2.6.30-bpo.1-686.bak vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686
    config-2.6.32-bpo.3-686 initrd.img-2.6.32-bpo.3-686 vmlinuz-2.6.30-backports.1-686
    grub multiboot.img vmlinuz-2.6.30-bpo.1-686
    grub.sav System.map-2.6.26-2-686 vmlinuz-2.6.32-bpo.3-686
    initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686 System.map-2.6.30-backports.1-686


    my system says i have the latest GRUB2 installed but when i boot its ver .9?? GRUB
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    I am not sure if its possible to keep both versions of GRUB. I have to check it in my Debian machine.
    Could you post the contents of /boot/grub/menu.lst file?
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    i do not want 2 versions of grub i just want one that is working.

    grub2 deletes the menu.lst file si it no longer exists.

    and the grub that is booting is using something to display a menu but its not menu.lst as there is no file by that name on my entire system
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    Execute update-grub command as root user. Does it throw any error message or info regarding OS probe?
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    my:~# update-grub
    Updating /boot/grub/grub.cfg ...
    Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-bpo.3-686
    Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-bpo.3-686
    Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-bpo.1-686
    Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-bpo.1-686
    Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-backports.1-686
    Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-backports.1-686
    Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686
    Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686
    done


    only these 2 kernels display in the menu on boot up

    2.6.30-bpo.1-686
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    Its GRUB2, detected all available kernels and generated new grub.cfg file. Reboot machine and check if all kernel versions are listed in GRUB Menu.
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    it doesn't display the all the kernels and the

    grub.cfg file does list all the kernels.

    the problem is the harddrive is still booting fron grub and not grub2
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    need to find out what version you have, early versions had a problem updateing grub.cfg data from menu.lst. been there done that. Needs to be version 1.97~beta4

    grub-install -v
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