On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 05:40 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
Ubuntu has a routine that builds the grub2 config file
by searching the machine for bootable operating systems.
Booting Ubuntu recovery brings up a menu which includes
rebuilding the grub files.
I keep Ubuntu on a partition in my office machine and let it
do the grubby lifting. It locates about a dozen boot targets
and puts them in the boot menu. I have learned to do it this way
so that a failed install of foo.bar Linux will not leave the
machine unbootable.
After manually getting grub2 installed on my system (by booting into the
rescue mode from the install DVD) and created a working grub.cfg with
grub2-mkconfig. By running grub2-mkconfig you can check what it comes up
with.
Jurgen