Grub Upgrade procedure Overwrites Menu.lst

[Kevin DuBois]

Binary package hint: grub

I have a custom LFS based system sitting on another partition in my laptop. whenever i upgrade grub, the entry in menu.lst for my custom distro disappears. Perhaps, the upgrade process should assume that any modifications are there on purpose

[Parthan SR (parth-technofreak)]

hank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately your description didn't include enough information.

* Which version of Ubuntu are you using?
* Is this problem reproducible?
* If yes, what are the steps to reproduce the problem?

This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Kevin DuBois (kdub)]

The specific hard drive setup is

sda1 --- / (for ubuntu), contains the /boot directory that the MBR looks at first
sda2 --- swap
sda3 --- /home
sda4 --- / (for my LFS)

[Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)]

* Kevin DuBois

| I have a custom LFS based system sitting on another partition in my
| laptop. whenever i upgrade grub, the entry in menu.lst for my custom
| distro disappears. Perhaps, the upgrade process should assume that any
| modifications are there on purpose

This sounds like you have your LFS entry inside the:

### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified
## by the debian update-grub script except for the default options below

[...]

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

section. If so, don't do that; put it outside and all should be good.

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Tollef Fog Heen
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[Kevin DuBois (kdub)]

This is indeed the problem. Thanks, it looks like we can close this bug