Upgrade to 9.04 fails to boot - doesn't update grub menu

[Skewray]

Starter was fully updated 8.10. / was RAID 1 on /dev/md0. After upgrading, the machine drops into busybox with a message that it cannot find /dev/md0 in order to mount /.

Grub appears to not have been updated at all, and only has references to 2.6.27-11 and earlier kernels. 2.6.27-11 is the kernel that will no longer boot. Updating menu.lst by hand allows booting into the new kernel.

Brian

[Skewray (ubuntu-skewray)]

From term.log:

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
Running postinst hook script /sbin/update-grub.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.27-11-generic
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic
Found kernel: /memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

...

rts: executing /etc/kernel/prerm.d/last-good-boot
Running postrm hook script /sbin/update-grub.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.27-11-generic
Found kernel: /memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

...

So the install does it right, than mangles it afterwards.

Brian

[Skewray (ubuntu-skewray)]

I just had something very similar happen on another computer, also an upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04 done yesterday. The final menu.lst only referenced older kernels. I think that perhaps the installer first created a new menu.lst using both 2.6.27-11 and 2.6.28-11, and then later made a new menu.lst based only on 2.6.27-11.

[Monkey (monkey-libre)]

I´ve assigned this bug to the grub package.

Thank You for making Ubuntu better.

[dino99 (9d9)]

This is no more a supported version; and grub legacy upstream is also stopped, only receiving possible random fixes locally