grub problem

r_s · 08-06-2009, 01:32 PM

one day suddenly I find that my grub file has changed a wee bit it also included the following lines (menu.lst)
title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-13-generic
uuid a1e41098-9fb1-4e41-8ae4-fa8ef6c21acd
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-13-generic root=UUID=a1e41098-9fb1-4e41-8ae4-fa8ef6c21acd ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-13-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-13-generic (recovery mode)
uuid a1e41098-9fb1-4e41-8ae4-fa8ef6c21acd
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-13-generic root=UUID=a1e41098-9fb1-4e41-8ae4-fa8ef6c21acd ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-13-generic

as compared to just
title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic
uuid a1e41098-9fb1-4e41-8ae4-fa8ef6c21acd
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=a1e41098-9fb1-4e41-8ae4-fa8ef6c21acd ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic (recovery mode)
uuid a1e41098-9fb1-4e41-8ae4-fa8ef6c21acd
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=a1e41098-9fb1-4e41-8ae4-fa8ef6c21acd ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic

I cannot understand why did this happen?
Plz help!

pljvaldez · 08-06-2009, 01:43 PM

What is different than before? These four lines? Basically it looks like you had a kernel update. So now you have boot menu items for two different kernels, each one with a normal boot up and a recovery mode boot up.

joeBuffer · 08-06-2009, 06:50 PM

That's exactly what happened. When you downloaded updates, it updated your kernel, and didn't get rid of the old one. You can remove the old one, if you want, by using:

Code:

sudo apt-get remove linux-image-2.6.28-11-generic

It will clean up your boot menu, also.