When new Ubuntu was released with the Unity desktop, it was so awful that I decided to join you in the Debian experience. So far, so good. I installed Squeeze from the DVD, then decided I needed some newer apps and learned about "testing" and "unstable" and most things are going well.
When I did the Debian install, it noticed I had a Windows partition and an Ubuntu partition with two kernels. Grub was set and I could launch any of those OS. However, after the Debian update to the testing edition of the kernel, the grub.cfg no longer had my Ubuntu partitions. It still has the Windows partition. Don't make fun of my Windows. I only keep it for TurboTax :). I don't really want to boot the Ubuntu partition, but I'd like to know how to get it back. My Ubuntu was installed in the old-style way, with a boot partition (/dev/sda3), a root partition (/dev/sda7), and separate partitions for /opt, /usr/local/ and /var. I've tried to manually put in an entry in grub.cfg, but I'm not as good at grub2 as I wish. Here's grub.cfg for the Debian partition, which starts nicely I can mount the Ubuntu partitions in Debian and see what grub.cfg was in there. I *believe* that if I just copy the following into the Debian grub.cfg, then I would be able to start Ubuntu. menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.38-8-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { recordfail set gfxpayload=$linux_gfx_mode insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='(/dev/sda,msdos3)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 2eb8cda6-366c-4ef7-b7da-8ff292ca7e61 linux /vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=18c56003-c1d4-4fa1-8753-a20bf3034b7e ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 initrd /initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic } Right? I'm not in danger of Breaking any parts that do work now, am i? And how can this become permanent. however, the next time Debian kernel updates, it will disappear again. How to make it permanent? grub.cfg says: # # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE # # It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates # from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub # But in /etc/default/grub, there's nothing about the other OS in grub.cfg. Ideas? -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTi=5eDMwWB=dze-8kb7k0a6n4cc...@mail.gmail.com