Re: Some comments on grub2 on gutsy

[Arthur Marsh]

Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd wrote, on 2007-06-12 20:44:
> On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 20:13 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > > On the GRUB menu apart from the regular entries there is also a
> > > chainload to GRUB 2. When I enter that I get a menu similar to GRUB
> > > menu but without any entries. Dunno why it is there, can anybody
> > > explain ?
> > >
> > > This is just a comment on how it looks on gutsy, nothing else, sorry
> > > if its out of line of context of the mailing list.
> > If you mean to use the Debian package, please get the official one from
> > debian sid (rebuilding if necessary).  This looks like an update-grub issue,
> > but I can't really tell since I don't know if the package has been modified
> > (or how).
> Apparently if grub2 is installed on a debian system which has
> grub-legacy installed as the default bootloader, if you do and update
> grub, it automagically adds the chainload to grub2. 

Yes, this is the case, and one can run

sh /usr/lib/grub-legacy/update-grub

if one removes some of the kernels installed and want the changes 
reflected in the original menu.

Arthur.