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[all variants] Unable to update grub

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http://ubuntuforums.org – Hi, I've got a grub related problem. Code: egroot@Cassiopeia:~$ ls -l /boot/grub/menu.lst -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5144 dec 26 11:55 /boot/grub/menu.lst egroot@Cassiopeia:~$ sudo update-grub [sudo] password for egroot: Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ... Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-35-generic Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-34-generic Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-33 (Hardware)

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Submitted by colm on 12/26/2012

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Although I have several kernel versions in /boot and having them in my grub.cfg, they are not displayed in the grub boot menu.

Running update-grub seems to work, as it puts the kernels in the grub.cfg in /boot/grub.

I have one Ubuntu 13.04 and one Win7 on my system, but grub seems to be detecting them multiple times for some reason (see below) and I end up with two Ubuntus on my grub menu.

I cant start Grub Customizer in ubuntu 12.04 after updating the kernel:

exception '15AssertException' with message 'found unexpected file on path: /etc/grub.d/10_linux' in /build/buildd/grub-customizer-3.0.2/src/Model/ListCfg.cpp:916

Also update-grub command shows two identical kernels:

Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-36-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-36-generic Foun

My laptop dual-boots Windows 7 & Ubuntu. Recently I added a logical partition and installed Backtrack. So now I'm triple-booting.

I installed lubuntu 12.04 on this machine, an old Thinkpad T30, alongside Windows XP. Since I can't access Quickbooks through lubuntu, the machine being too slow to run a virtual machine reliably, I used grub-customizer to move XP to the top of the grub list, and set the save-default option. Now, any time update-grub runs, I get this error:

Code: Installation finished.

I have a linux vps running Ubuntu 12.04 and when I run uname-r it replies:

paul@webforms:~$ uname -r 2.6.32.33-kvm-i386-20111128-dirty paul@webforms:~$ sudo grub-install -v grub-install (GRUB) 1.99-21ubuntu3.1

if I run update-grub I get:

paul@webforms:~$ sudo update-grub Generating grub.cfg ... Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-26-generic-pae Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-26

Goh Lip wrote:In terminal......sudo grub-install /dev/sdaI did it, $ sudo grub-install /dev/sda Installation finished.

I installed Crunchbang today with the intention of dual booting, but Windows is not in my GRUB menu...I've looked around and tried some things, but GRUB still isn't seeing Windows. Here are some commands I've run:user@crunchbox:~$ sudo os-prober grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sdb1.

After recompiling my kernel, I copied the corresponding files to /boot, and my /boot directory looks like:

Then, I inserted a new item in grub, and /boot/grub/menu.lst now looks like:

After searching a lot, I found that someone mentions that maybe ACPI settings matter. So, I set ACPI to off.