Grub not accepting change and /dev/sdb5 taking forever to boot after upgrade to 11.04

Bug #779066 reported by Dave Johansen
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grub2 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

I've changed the default in grub to Windows several times, but it still boots into Ubuntu.

Also, the boot takes a VERY long time and prints an error about /dev/sdb5 not being available.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.150
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat May 7 07:39:59 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-30 (7 days ago)

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RedSingularity (redsingularity) wrote :

Changing package.

affects: update-manager (Ubuntu) → grub (Ubuntu)
Steve Langasek (vorlon)
affects: grub (Ubuntu) → grub2 (Ubuntu)
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Dave Johansen (davejohansen) wrote :

The slow boot issue has been resolved (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/794846 ).

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Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson) wrote :

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for grub2 (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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