Dual boot Ubuntus cause out of date grub/menu.lst

[Daryl Lublink]

1. I installed Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 on sda1 and sda5(swap).
2. I installed Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 on sda6 and sda7(swap).
3. I updated Ubuntu sda1 to Intrepid
4. Grub is now controlled by sda6 and any time Ubuntu Intrepid updates it's kernel, it is no added to grub since grub/menu.lst is on sda6 instead of sda1.

Should ubuntu installer share the grub/menu.lst file?

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 290140, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

There is insufficient information in bug #290140 to conclude these are the same bug. un-duping.

[Daryl Lublink (dlublink)]

This is in fact NOT a duplicate issue. The issue I have raised is when dual booting different versions of ubuntu, each version creates it's own /boot directory + contents, and the MBR usually points to the OS that was installed second. When the first OS has an upgrade, it updates /boot/menu.lst on it's own partition and does not appear in Grub because Grub points to the second partition.

I do not know if this is a bug or wish list, but perhaps when installing a second version of ubuntu on the same machine it should offer to reuse /boot of the first installation ?

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

I can confirm this still is happening using grub2 in Lucid. If there is one version of Ubuntu on the hard drive, and a new partition is used for the 2nd installation, the grub contents will not update when the earlier installation is upgraded.