Grub assigns the wrong hard drive number in menu.lst

[Garry Leach]

Binary package hint: grub

I am still using grub 1, version 0.97-29ubuntu59.

This problem occurred with both Mythbuntu 9.04, & newly installed 9.10.

I have the following partitions:
hd0,0 37GB for a backup/test Mythbuntu system (currently 9.04); boot flag is here.
hd0,1 37GB for the live Mythbuntu system (currently 9.10); this has the mount point "/" assigned.
hd0,2 200 MB; linux swap
hd1,0 300 GB; Myth recordings & videos; this has the mount point "/mnt.mythtv" assigned.
hd2,0 930 GB; Myth recordings & videos; this has the mount point "/mnt.mythtv2" assigned.

Whenever the system is updated with a new kernel, & the install program generates a new menu.lst, the menu.lst shows root (hd2, 0 ), instead of (hd0,1) for the menu lines "root".

I am not sure whether it gets the right UUID for the menu lines beginning "kernel", as it is a while since I allowed automatic creation of menu.lst. However, I think that it does.

Also, it never creates an entry for the back-up system on (hd0,0).

My usual solution is to refuse to allow the automatic creation of menu.lst

Thanks for your help, Garry.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Feb 7 13:51:49 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: grub 0.97-29ubuntu59
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
SourcePackage: grub
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic i686
XsessionErrors: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2975): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

[dino99 (9d9)]

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