Comment 9 for bug 193439
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| Kejope (kejope) wrote Re: update-grub fails when default is "saved" | #9 |
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(Get the code!)
So VERY sorry for that! I was in the middle of some further experiments and did not mean to post yet. I don't see any way to edit my post!
My entire paragraph about the hard drive being removed is false. I had meant to delete that paragraph before posting. I realized that the hard disk is currently connected and so therefore its absence was not the cause at all.
I had told update-grub to install the package maintainer's version of menu.lst, then saw that two entries were missing that I wanted to keep. I copied them back into menu.lst. I ran update-grub again and got the error. My test was to reinsert/remove these two entries:
The entries in menu.lst:
title Mac OS X 02 1,4 v9
root (hd1,4)
kernel /boot/boot_mac
boot
title Mac OS X 01 1,4 ch
root (hd1,4)
kernel /boot/boot_ch
boot
The first couple of times I did that, I got no error from running /sbin/update-grub while the entries were absent, but got the error when they were present.
After several more tests, I seem to have come to a dead end. I can no longer reproduce the toggling of working/not-working that I was able to do a few minutes ago. Now, I do not get the error at all. I don't know what has changed.
Yay!(?)
I am willing to help test if anyone has suggestions.