Comment 7 for bug 26031

Colin Watson writes ("[Bug 26031] Re: grub menu contains "combinatorial expansion" of existing installations"):
> No, this bug isn't in update-grub, it's in the installer component that
> generates the initial menu.lst. update-grub only looks at kernels in its
> own installation.
>
> Note that all the "(on /dev/blah)" entries are outside the "AUTOMAGIC
> KERNELS LIST" section, so update-grub considers them to be manually-
> maintained.

So they are.

If we hadn't been in the habit of installing grub in the mbr then this
would be a much easier problem to solve: we could chain to the grub in
the other partition.

Ian.