kgrubeditor does not support GRUB 2

It's called /boot/grub/grub.cfg now that we use GRUB 2. Can you describe the actual problem that you encountered in more detail?

  Specifically while booting the system I used to see the grub menu ;
the problem now is that it seems to be no grub menu. The result is that
ubuntu karmic boots up immediately. I also want to add that just before
ubuntu boots up I can see a message but its impossible to reach to read
it. So I installed kgrubeditor and tried to add the windows entry but
when I run the program a message appears saying: no /boot/grub/menu.lst
file .
  There is also a possibility that it might be a conflict in my disc's
mbr. So it might be my own fault.
  Sorry for the inconvenience in case this isn't a bug.

Στις 14-08-2009, ημέρα Παρ, και ώρα 09:02 +0000, ο/η Colin Watson
έγραψε:
> It's called /boot/grub/grub.cfg now that we use GRUB 2. Can you describe
> the actual problem that you encountered in more detail?
>
> ** Package changed: grub (Ubuntu) => grub2 (Ubuntu)
>

I am running 32 bit Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty on my sda1 partition. It uses grub (menu.lst).

Yesterday I installed the 64 bit Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic on a 40GB partition, sda5. It uses grub2 (grub.cfg).

On my Karmic side, when I run "Systemsettings --> Advanced --> Grub Editor" it complains that "/boot/grub/menu.lst does not exist!", so the Grub Editor can not configured /boot/grub/grub.cfg for grub2.

When I try to use the "Help --> Report Bug" I get a dialog which has in the title "Invalid problem report - Apport KDE", and an "Ok" button to close the dialog. No report is sent.

It doesn't show the menu because you didn't read my posting to ubuntu-devel-announce ;-) In general you should be subscribed to ubuntu-devel-announce if you're running a development release.

  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2009-August/000599.html

There are already other bugs filed about this, and I'll be making things a bit more graceful before 9.10 releases, I hope.

kgrubeditor clearly needs to be fixed to cope with GRUB 2. This is not GRUB 2's fault. It'll need more than just a filename change - the whole menu structure is different now.

Please note that kgrubeditor is not officially supported, and was rejected for main inclusion for other quality problems (see bug 262309).

Indeed, this is more of a feature request [GRUB2 support]. Why was it marked as a "*High* Importance" bug?

It's marked as high importance because grub2 is the default boot loader in karmic. So the "feature" being requested is for kgrubeditor to be usable in Ubuntu 9.10.

Given that this package has a history of not working with the GRUB menu in Ubuntu, I wonder if it wouldn't be better to remove it until it can be fixed.

ok for removal from me (a shame but can't be avoided)

OK, removed. For now, you're better off editing /etc/default/grub directly, and running 'sudo update-grub' afterwards; it's quite a simple text file.

2009-09-25 22:18:46 INFO creating lockfile
2009-09-25 22:18:51 INFO Removing candidates:
2009-09-25 22:18:51 INFO kgrubeditor 0.8.5-0ubuntu3 in karmic
2009-09-25 22:18:51 INFO kgrubeditor 0.8.5-0ubuntu3 in karmic amd64
2009-09-25 22:18:51 INFO kgrubeditor 0.8.5-0ubuntu3 in karmic armel
2009-09-25 22:18:51 INFO kgrubeditor 0.8.5-0ubuntu3 in karmic i386
2009-09-25 22:18:51 INFO kgrubeditor 0.8.5-0ubuntu3 in karmic ia64
2009-09-25 22:18:51 INFO kgrubeditor 0.8.5-0ubuntu3 in karmic lpia
2009-09-25 22:18:51 INFO kgrubeditor 0.8.5-0ubuntu3 in karmic powerpc
2009-09-25 22:18:51 INFO kgrubeditor 0.8.5-0ubuntu3 in karmic sparc
2009-09-25 22:18:51 INFO Removed-by: Colin Watson
2009-09-25 22:18:51 INFO Comment: non-functional with GRUB 2 (default boot loader for new Karmic installs), and has a history of not working with the GRUB menu in Ubuntu; ok vorlon, jr; LP: #412437
2009-09-25 22:18:52 INFO 8 packages successfully removed.
Confirm this transaction? [yes, no] yes
2009-09-25 22:18:53 INFO Transaction committed.
2009-09-25 22:18:53 INFO The archive will be updated in the next publishing cycle.

By the way, if anyone wants to work on porting kgrubeditor to GRUB 2, I'd be happy to work with you on figuring out how that should work, although it would probably be better to e-mail me than to continue the discussion in this bug report.

You probably should poke upstream, last time i talked to him he mentioned
that he is going to look at grub2 support. That was sone time ago, so it
might already be wip.

2009 9 26 00:32 schrieb am "Colin Watson" <email address hidden>:

By the way, if anyone wants to work on porting kgrubeditor to GRUB 2,
I'd be happy to work with you on figuring out how that should work,
although it would probably be better to e-mail me than to continue the
discussion in this bug report.

-- kgrubeditor does not support GRUB 2
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412437 You received this bu...

Upgrading from 9.4 to 9.1 has messed up my dual boot. Just discovered cannot boot my XP install on this machine the suggestion to edit /etc/default/grub does not work for me no such file exists to edit. Also when creating an upgrade that changes something as fundamental as how the machine boots to something not backwards compatible a BIG RED warning notice should be made prior to any install. this has rendered half my machine useless and will take days of google research on how to manually fix the result of this upgrade.

The comments above say that a fix for the Kgrubeditor to handle Grub2 is available. How do we get it?

None of the comments above say that; you must have misunderstood.

What does fix released mean then?

That krubeditor was removed from K/Ubuntu.