Public bug reported: Binary package hint: grub-pc
Installing Karmic Alpha 3 on multi-boot systems, with Mandriva 2009.1 (or its derivatives) being one of the other installed distributions. Mandriva puts the partition information in menu.lst on the "kernel" and "initrd" lines, like this: title linux kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=cbe56721-313a-49c2-9e06-6ac78a5df00f resume=UUID=ed97fbf1-7965-465f-8a29-5698bb23502d splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd.img When Grub 2 creates its grub.cfg (and previously /etc/grub.d/30_otheros), it correctly strips the device specification from the kernel line and converts it to a "root" specification, but it does not strip the device from the initrd line, and thus leaves an invalid boot specification such as this: # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda6. menuentry "linux (on /dev/sda6)" { set root=(hd0,6) search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set cbe56721-313a-49c2-9e06-6ac78a5df00f linux /boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=cbe56721-313a-49c2-9e06-6ac78a5df00f resume=UUID=ed97fbf1-7965-465f-8a29-5698bb23502d splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd.img } ** Affects: grub2 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Grub 2 multiboot config wrong with Mandriva https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/408209 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs