Gutsy installer creates a faulty menu.lst when a /boot/ partition is used
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
First, I didn't know which package is the real responsible for this error so I hope somebody is good enough to throw this in the right basket.
I've seen this on multiple occasions, but I can clearly remember this as well with my Edgy installation but since I still saw it with Gutsy I decided to write up this bug report.
It's an old habit of mine to perform a manual partitioning of the drive. And I always create one /boot/ partition and then a / (and optionally a /home but this is not relevant). But my partitioning now looks like this (on /dev/sdb, the bootloader is installed on /dev/sda)
isk /dev/sdb: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb6364037
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 12 96358+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 13 136 996030 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb3 137 9964 78943410 83 Linux
The fstab looks like:
edb@Flying-
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sdb3
UUID=f47c3437-
# /dev/sdb1
UUID=e04f2d2f-
# /dev/sda1
UUID=9C4CCC874C
# /dev/sdb2
UUID=a2d80068-
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec 0 0
And the error lies within the grub menu.lst which contains the following entry:
title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
root (hd1,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-
initrd /boot/initrd.
quiet
title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd1,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-
initrd /boot/initrd.
title Ubuntu 7.10, memtest86+
root (hd1,2)
kernel /boot/memtest86
quiet
Clearly this should be
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-
initrd /initrd.
Rebooting with the menu list results in a file not found within grub, which can be quite confusing to john/jane doe.
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/Bugs/ FindRightPackag e. I have classified this bug as a bug in ubiquity