grub: after an upgrade, it shouldn't launch an rt kernel

[Giovanni Dall'Olio]

Binary package hint: grub

I have upgraded from an Ubuntu hardy to an Intrepid, using the standard procedue.

After rebooting, I discovered that the system was very slow and went to freeze after a few hours of work (see this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/374284).

The problem was that grub, after the upgrade, selected an 'rt' kernel as default option, and any rt kernel I have tried works very badly on my computer.
After manually reconfiguring grub and selecting again a normal kernel, the system was run smoothly.

I believe this issue is more common than what believed. Many newbies report that their systems 'suck and are very slow' after a dist upgrade, therefore they usually uninstall the distro or abandon Ubuntu.

So, after an upgrade grub should never select a kernel of the different type than the one it is running: if I am running a i386 kernel, the new option should be another i386, and the same for rt and any other type of kernel.

[dino99 (9d9)]

outdated report & no more maintained distro; please send a new one if that issue still exist (using ubuntu-bug)