Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: grub-common
I have separate root-partitions for trying out if I really want to
upgrade or not. But I have a shared /boot partition to allow me to tell
grub to boot the old or the new install.
Currently "old" is jaunty, ia32. "new" is natty x86_64.
Somehow I managed to get a 32-bit vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-pae kernel in there.
Anyway, according to the config-making utility (which seems to be grub-
mkconfig) overrides the x86_64 kernel vmlinuz-2.6.38-8 . So I wasn't
able to boot my fancy new x86_64 kernel, and using the 32-bit kernel
results in a messy hang (the kernel will use a 64-bit insmod executable
to try to load the binfmt handler for the first 64-bit binary (I'm
guessing /sbin/init ?)
Workaround: I renamed the vmlinuz...-pae kernel to one version less, and
then it lists the 64-bit kernel at the top.
** Affects: grub2 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/776929
Title:
grub-mkconfig picks the wrong kernel.
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