Re: grub gets confused when I upgrade the kernel

2012-03-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Hendrik Boom wrote: > Let me see if I understand grub's interpretation of menu.lst correctly. > I have a boot stanza in my menu.lst: > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 3.0.0-1-686-pae testing > (squeeze-grub) OK > root(hd0,5) > kernel /vmlinuz-3.0.0-1-686-pae root=/

Re: grub gets confused when I upgrade the kernel

2012-03-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 20:54:31 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I have two different Debian systems on my EEEPC -- stable and testing. > Let me see if I understand grub's interpretation of menu.lst correctly. I have a boot stanza in my menu.lst: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 3.0.0-1-686-pae

Re: grub gets confused when I upgrade the kernel

2012-02-28 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:15:40 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: >> Hendrik Boom wrote: >>> >>> I'm getting the kernels in the /boot partition of one system matched >>> with the file-system root partition of the other system. >> >> I looked at the update

Re: grub gets confused when I upgrade the kernel

2012-02-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Hendrik Boom wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> I'm getting the kernels in the /boot partition of one system matched > >> with the file-system root partition of the other system. > > > > I looked at the update-grub script and at first glance I don't see how > > that is possibl

Re: grub gets confused when I upgrade the kernel

2012-02-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:15:40 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I'm getting the kernels in the /boot partition of one system matched >> with the file-system root partition of the other system. > > I looked at the update-grub script and at first glance I don't see how > that is poss

Re: grub gets confused when I upgrade the kernel

2012-02-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 26 feb 12, 20:54:31, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I have two different Debian systems on my EEEPC -- stable and testing. > > Whenever testing installs a new kernel as a result of the routing update, > my grub/menu.list file gets rewritten. WHen it does this, it matches the > kernels I have in o

Re: grub gets confused when I upgrade the kernel

2012-02-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Hendrik Boom wrote: > I'm getting the kernels in the /boot partition of one system matched with > the file-system root partition of the other system. I looked at the update-grub script and at first glance I don't see how that is possible It looks for kernels in /boot. I don't see how it can be p

Re: grub gets confused when I upgrade the kernel

2012-02-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:39:06 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I have two different Debian systems on my EEEPC -- stable and testing. >> >> Whenever testing installs a new kernel as a result of the routing >> update, my grub/menu.list file gets rewritten. WHen it does this, it >>

Re: grub gets confused when I upgrade the kernel

2012-02-26 Thread Marc Auslander
Hendrik Boom writes: ... > > (b) If I were to progress to grub2, where I gather I can't take control > of the boot process by editing menu.lst, is there some other way of > making sure things go right? I fear that one of these years, upgrading > to grub2 will become inevitable. > With grub2 y

Re: grub gets confused when I upgrade the kernel

2012-02-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Hendrik Boom wrote: > I have two different Debian systems on my EEEPC -- stable and testing. > > Whenever testing installs a new kernel as a result of the routing update, > my grub/menu.list file gets rewritten. WHen it does this, it matches the > kernels I have in one Debian sysstem with the f

Re: grub gets confused when I upgrade the kernel

2012-02-26 Thread Brian
On Sun 26 Feb 2012 at 20:54:31 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I have two different Debian systems on my EEEPC -- stable and testing. > > Whenever testing installs a new kernel as a result of the routing update, > my grub/menu.list file gets rewritten. WHen it does this, it matches the > kernels

Re: grub gets confused when I upgrade the kernel

2012-02-26 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
26/02/2012 21:54, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I have two different Debian systems on my EEEPC -- stable and testing. > > Whenever testing installs a new kernel as a result of the routing update, > my grub/menu.list file gets rewritten. WHen it does this, it matches the > kernels I have in one Debian

grub gets confused when I upgrade the kernel

2012-02-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
I have two different Debian systems on my EEEPC -- stable and testing. Whenever testing installs a new kernel as a result of the routing update, my grub/menu.list file gets rewritten. WHen it does this, it matches the kernels I have in one Debian sysstem with the fie-system root I have in the