On 23/09/2009, Steve Fosdick lists@pelvoux.nildram.co.uk wrote:
Wondering if the installation had silently failed due to running out of space I delete the oldest kernel image which I never use from aptitude and tried installing the 2.6.31 package again whereupon the error went away.
Do you know if grub version has been updated?
I still don't know if the disk space idea was correct or whether there is some other problem, for example a limit to the number of menu entries etc. or something else that re-installing the package fixed.
Did you try booting using grub command line rather than the menu?
I've 'fixed' the problem by installing grub2 (which is still beta apparently), and spending a while converting the syntax to the new format. This seems to work, but I'm not sure what the original problem was (which irritates me for not knowing).
The grub developers didn't really want to help unless I was running grub2 so perhaps this is a grub-legacy bug...
Regards, Srdjan