>On my machine there isnt't this problem. >The last entry in the menu.lst points to 2.6.38.8-desktop-4 >all automatically, without editing. > >so grub works normally.
no, it does not. it never did. the testing scenarios have always been insufficient. I needed to add an entry to menu.lst to chain to a different menu.lst from another partition (this GRUB dual-boots Mageia Cauldron 32-bit with Windows XP, and the chained GRUB boots Mageia Cauldron 64-bit). Once you manually touch menu.lst, it's never going to be properly updated afterwards. such is life, I suppose -- buggy. r-c aka beranger