Wrong uuid in grub/menu.lst

[jerryb]

I'm seeing the wrong uuid put in grub's menu.lst file (grub legacy).

Some history:

I've been with Ubuntu for many years, through many updates. Initially I set up a 100 meg boot partition which has been enough for two kernels (three, initially) at a time. Now, however, it only holds one kernel, which means that kernel updates fail. To mitigate the problem, I

1. copied the contents of the boot partition (SDA1 in my case) to a new directory, "myboot" on my root device (sda6, in my case).
2. unmounted the boot partition (and commented it out in fstab)
3. renamed "myboot" to just "boot"
4. ran synaptic to install the kernel update

When synaptic finished, the new kernel was sitting in the new directory and menu.lst had been updated, BUT I have something like this (not the actual uuids):

title "new kernel"
uuid 1
kernel /vmlinuz... uuid=2
initrd /init...

The problem is that the new kernel is on uuid=2 and in /boot, NOT on uuid1 and not in the root directory of any device on my system. I fixed the problem by saving the new menu.lst under another name, remounting sda1 on /boot, editing the menu.lst found there and adding the new menu item with the correct uuids. Only then could I boot the new kernel.

[jerryb (gerald-britton)]

More information on this:

I'm using Grub legacy. The update-grub script generates a command
uuid 1123...

however, Grub legacy says "invalid command". It appears that grub legacy does *not* support this command. the script should generate the euqivalent

root (hdn,m)

command instead.