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  1. Bug #61344
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 61344

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Ben Collins (ben-collins) wrote : Re: [Bug 61344] Re: Kernel Freeze on boot

On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 02:55 +0000, Richard Kleeman wrote:
> I am booting from a Dapper /boot/grub/menu.lst and am updating
> the system using chroot and aptitude on the mounted Edgy partition (/test). Could this be the problem?

Well, I can't support an install/upgrade with this method. I have no
idea what affect it will have.

> BTW the Edgy knot 2 livecd also failed to boot apparently for the same
> reason.

Try the Knot3 CD.

> I looked in the /boot/grub/menu.lst and found that
> kopt_2_6
>
> was always commented out (i.e. there was always a # at the beginning of
> the line). Does this mean it is really commented or do I need to remove
> all lines with it and run grub-update?
>
> BTW this was the case in the /test/boot/grub/menu.lst file as well...

Remove it, it gets used by update-grub if it exists (commented out just
means it gets ignored by the grub program itself). It's used to create
the main menu entries.