Re: [SOLVED] In jessie(debian) I installed kernel 4.9 and ...

[Gérard ROBIN]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 12:08:24AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 00:08:24 +0100
> From: Pascal Hambourg <address@hidden>
> To: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: In jessie(debian) I installed kernel 4.9 and I removed kernel
>  3.16 but grub always boot on 3.16
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> Le 10/11/2017 à 20:19, Gérard ROBIN a écrit :
> > Hello,
> > jessie was installed on my old box Assus A7N8X with the kernel
> > linux-image-3.16.0-4-686-pae. I installed the kernel
> > linux-image-4.9.0-4-686-pae and when I booted the box, grub did not display
> > the kernel 4.9 it only showed kernel 3.16. I hit the c key and the
> > command exit and after that I saw the kernel 4.9 and I booted the box
> > successfully with the kernel 4.9. I ran again update-grub but it was always
> > the same thing at startup. Finally I removed the kernel 3.16 and then I did
> > update-grub. And surprise! grub always displays kernel 3.16 and not kernel
> > 4.9, but fortunately "c and exit" work.
> > 
> > I put the result of bootinfoscript in attached document.
> > 
> > There are to hard drives in this machine : sda and sdb
> > grub on sda, kernel 4.9 and stretch (now)
> > jessie on sdb, kernel 3.16
> > 
> > Can anyone help me make grub work properly ?
> 
> Another GRUB is installed by jessie on sdb, and it seems that it is the one
> which is loaded first by the BIOS. When you exit from it and return to the
> BIOS, the BIOS then loads the other GRUB from sda.
> 
> Just setup the BIOS to boot from sda first.

You found the solution, the bios started hd1 first, putting hd0 now it's ok.

Thanks.

-- 
Gerard
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