updated to GRUB 1.96 and now "need to load the kernel first"

bucovaina78 · 11-19-2008, 01:34 PM

Well, I just upgraded to GRUB 1.96. I downloaded the source from the website and installed it with the command

Code:

grub-install /dev/sdb

It gave a little feedback that everything went fine.

Here's my grub.conf file I found in /boot/grub/

Code:

#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/update-grub using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
set default=0
set timeout=5
set root=(hd1,1)
if font (hd1,1)/usr/share/grub/unicode.pff ; then
  set gfxmode=640x480
  insmod gfxterm
  insmod vbe
  terminal gfxterm
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_hurd ###
### END /etc/grub.d/10_hurd ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry "Ubuntu, linux 2.6.27-7-generic" {
        linux   (hd1,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=UUID=66dba61c-1a37-4289-beb2-6d8de006a64f ro quiet splash 
        initrd  (hd1,1)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
}
menuentry "Ubuntu, linux 2.6.27-7-generic (single-user mode)" {
        linux   (hd1,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=UUID=66dba61c-1a37-4289-beb2-6d8de006a64f ro single
        initrd  (hd1,1)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
        linux   (hd1,1)/boot/memtest86+.bin
}
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.24-1-686 (on /dev/sda1)" {
        set root=(hd0,1)
        linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet
        initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.24-1-686 (single-user mode) (on /dev/sda1)" {
        set root=(hd0,1)
        linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/sda1 ro single
        initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-686
}
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###

btw: the first time it also went wrong and now I've been a little smarter and have a backup of the mbr:

Code:

dd if=/dev/sdb of=~/masterbootrecord.img count=1 bs=512

I hope I did that right

And yet another less important question. I installed grub2 with downloading version 1.96 right?

aus9 · 11-20-2008, 07:51 AM

no 1.96 is beta grub2

if you do an upgrade ubuntu will not upgrade to a 1.9* series but go to a 0.97 series

on sidux there are packages for the 1.96 series but that is not an upgrade sorry for the semantics.