ubiquity does not generate correct menu.lst

[Mark Grandi]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

I am not sure of this is a ubiquity bug or maybe a grub bug, but ill will report it here first just in case.

Ok, so ever since Breezy, the ubuntu installer (ubiquity) has not generated the correct menu.lst . It has messed something up along the line, and even though i forget what it messed up in breezy and dapper, when it happened to me again in feisty i took logs of it so hopefully this can be fixed.

So basically, i install ubuntu and it restarts, and when im brought to grub to select what OS to choose (ubuntu or windows) i pick the top ubuntu one and it says "not found" and then i can go back to the menu. This also happens with the "safe mode" and "memtest" options.

 For this instance, i had to change using grub the line that says "root: (hd0,1) " to "root: (hd0,0) or else nothing will boot.

And for reference, here are my "menu.lst"'s before, just fresh after a fiesty install and after i edited it so its correct. (these two files are attached)

[Mark Grandi (markgrandi)]

I also forgot to mention that it screwed up the entry for my windows partiton as well. It appears that it just moved everything up one drive (hd1 instead of hd0, hd2 instead of hd1). the before and after can be seen in the two attachments.

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Mark Grandi (markgrandi)]

I don't think so, but i am going to reinstall ubuntu once intrepid comes out, so i will try it then. I'm pretty sure its been fixed however.

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

Still an issue? Thanks.

[Mark Grandi (markgrandi)]

I installed the intrepid RC and it generated the menu.lst file correctly, so i guess this bug is 'solved' now.